On Sun, 2025-07-20 at 08:30 +0200, Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Le dimanche 20 juillet 2025, 05:16:17 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Maytham Alsudany a écrit : > > And then would this license cover all existing content that doesn't > > explicitly state its license? Or would it apply only to new content? > > I don’t see how we could apply a new license to existing content legally without the author’s consent. > The default for any original work in most jurisdictions is that the author has copyright with "All rights reserved" or similar. When people submit work to the wiki, its under the assumption that they intend to distribute it under whatever license the wiki is under. IANAL though so you're probably right. It's weird how there used to be a notice at [1] but that no longer exists.. I guess the only option is for a license to only apply to new work, and to gradually phase out older works where this license does not apply. -- Maytham [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20050415001944/http://wiki.debian.net/copyright.html
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