On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 10:58:43PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > 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? > > If for some reason we can't find a contributor (or a contributor has > fallen off the face of the planet) we should indicate as such and > probably just assume that they meant to give us free reign. If they > decide not to license it appropriately, then we should rip whatever it > is out of the webpage and rewrite it. I proposed in the bug report the following (in addition to what Don suggested): - post to d-a that the license is going to change in X months and that contributors are going to be contacted. Provide pointers to anyone feels he should be contacted and isn't - put a News item in the website explaining that the license change will be introduced in X months and do the same as with the e-mail After X months have gone through, the contributor's GPG emails have been collected, and SPI has been contacted and hold up a meeting clearing the way, change licence.wml as appropiate, add a *new* News item and e-mail d-a again. That way we are acting on good faith and nobody would have a reason to claim that the license change was introduced without they knowing it. > We probably should also come up with a set of guidelines for > contributors so that we avoid accidentally ending up with work not > written by a contributor in the website too. (Or at least, have such > work be clearly marked.) Absolutely true. The place for that is www.debian.org/devel/website/guidelines or something similar. Anyone wants to start writting it up? Regards Javier
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