Re: why dont new wiki pages default to gpl2 (was Re: User and groups justification (was Re: group nvram)

[Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>]

Holger Levsen wrote:
> 
> On Freitag, 20. März 2009, Jon Dowland wrote:
>> If you do so please bear in mind that doc/* in the base-passwd package
>> is
>> licensed GPL-2 and Debian wiki pages have no automatic explicit
>> copyright
>> exceptions (i.e. default to all rights reserved). See
>> <http://wiki.debian.org/Maintainers> for an example of how to specify an
>> explicit license for a new page (and the linked
>> <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms> for context and
>> history)
> 
> /me is surprised. I do understand why it takes ages to solve the licence
> for already existing pages, but why dont new pages default to a sane 
> licence, like gpl2?

Because we plan to work on this the license issue next month!

(and because we must distribute wiki markup alongside printed text)

Franklin