Bug#385797: Debian-Wiki Terms of Licensing
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Please see here:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms
> In summary, the wiki should express a clear licence for the content on it, under which
> material can be contributed to and re-used with. This licence should be DFSG-compliant,
> with the suggestion being the MIT licence (see references).
This suggests to use the MIT-license for Wiki-content, although it is unclear whether
this can be done that way:
> Example
> The MoinMoin options to enable licences are:
>
>
> page_licence_enabled = 1
> page_licence_terms = u"SiteLicence"
>
> Where ?SiteLicence could be any appropriate term. Then please include the licence
> chosen on the relevant wiki page.
As far as I understood things, contributors are free to choose whichever license for their
pages, although it is not recommended at all to leave content in the public domain,
because this would be too permissive.
However this:
>_http://wiki.debian.org/copyright.html_
is a dead link, that appears in several places, meaning nothing at all, because the
MIT-license is not a copyright license, but copyleft in fact, right?
see there for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mit_license
Other suggestions are to choose GPL or to choose a CC-license, i.e. link there:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
or there:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
The latter being more restrictive, not allowing commercial use of content, all examples
being copyleft though, not copyright. OK?
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