This mail landed on the wrong list, and might even be interesting fo the people on debian-legal (in case there is anybody alive and reading mail - does anybody? - can we only post to debian-legal if ) -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: risc@volumehost.com > To: linux-fai-devel@uni-koeln.de > Subject: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:42:43 -0500 > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > <snip/> > > > > > > > > The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de > > > > > > > > > > > > IANAL & AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License. > > > > Some of them are very restricting. e.g. "don't modify my beautiful > > > > painting". But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it ) > > > > > > "creative commons attribution 2.5" is one of these, that one that allows > > > absolute freedom apart from the original author must be mentioned. Sorry > > > for not posting a link to it and to the faiwiki copyright page, here > > > they go: > > > > > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ > > > > > > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAIWiki:Copyrights > > > > | Attribution 2.5 > > | > > | You are free: > > | > > | * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work > > | * to make derivative works > > | * to make commercial use of the work > > | > > | Under the following conditions: > > | by > > | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the > > | author or licensor. > > | > > | * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the > > | * license terms of this work. > > | * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from > > | * the copyright holder. > > | > > | Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above. > > | > > > > Sounds reasonable to me. > > > > > > Cheers > > Geert Stappers > > > > I was sitting arround, concidering placing some content in the wiki, when i started concidering licensing issues, reguarding code in the wiki. > > as we have a 'user classes' and 'user scripts' section, i think its quite relevent. > > If i cut-and paste sections of code out of my /usr/local/share/fai directory, whats the licecnse? > I mean, i can always release relevant code elsewhere under the GPL, nothing stops me from doing it, however... > > say joe_user cuts-and-pastes in some interesting code. the CCL requires atribution, the GPL does not. > does this have the effect that we cannot use this code in FAI itsself? > and what about my /usr/local/share/fai code? its mostly a derivitive of the examples given. am i breaking the GPL by pasting in my script to the website? > > these questions disturb me. I now let them disturb everyone else. ;) > > Julia Longtin <risc@volumehost.com> >
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