Re: Doubts and Ideas
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On 05/30/2007 10:23 PM, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
>> It's unlikely that our web pages have much content for which there
>> isn't prior art, or simply common knowledge.
>
> Prior art isn't an issue, since it's not patented.
>
> In any event, to resolve this issue completely all that we need is 1)
> a GPG signed email from every contributor saying that they either
> assign copyright of their contributions to SPI or give SPI a
> non-exclusive royalte-free license to do with the copyright work as
> they see fit 2) a directive from the DPL to SPI to license the work
> under GPL (or MIT/Expat or whatever -www decides.)
>
> #1 should probably be made a part of the proceedure that is followed
> when you get commit access to the cvs, and #2 is simply a matter of
> e-mailing leader@ once -www decides which licence.
I remember that some people complained about given their
copyright to SPI (or $whoever), I think we should go with both
options, I'm only afraid about having material licensed under
incompatible licenses (could that happen?). I don't think we
should have an endless discussion about something that would
be extremely hard to happen, in my opinion, MIT/Expat seems to
be a good license for the website and I would vote for that one.
> The legal verbiage for #1 we can just borrow from the FSF; if there
> aren't any serious objections I could even embark on getting these
> messages from contributors.
Don, I volunteer to help you. I can help with the Brazilian
contributors, we are going to need to also ask help of other
translations team.
And considering a lot of other people have infinite more
understading of Copyright issues, what should we do if we can't
find/contact the contributor and/or he/she decides to not relicense
it? Is it possible to remove the content and rewrite it free?
> Don Armstrong
Kind regards,
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Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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