On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:12:15AM -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:56:01AM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ian Weller<ian(a)ianweller.org> wrote:
>
> > Every now and then I run across something that is obviously not
> > compatible. I don't touch it because there's no obvious licensing
>
> Huh? This doesn't make any sense - the wiki and docs.fp.o are licensed
> OPL, and always has been (for the last three years - always in my book
> :) ). AFAIK, we're talking about relicensing the wiki, the docs on
> docs.fp.o, and contemporaneously, RHT relicensing their upstream docs
> to CC-BY-SA (which seems perfectly reasonable to me).
>
If you put something in the wiki that *isn't yours* it doesn't magically
follow our licensing rules. People do that, either because they don't
understand the licensing or because they don't read the guidelines.
Yeah, or don't read the CLA, which specifically states in several
cases the work must be original to the contributor, or that they
otherwise have the right to give out a copyright license to it.
So let's just make it a policy. If you see something suspicious on
the wiki, contact the person who put it there immediately and ask them
to confirm they have the right to contribute it to Fedora. If they
don't, it must be taken down immediately.
- Karsten
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Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener
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