A debianHELP user just posted a note about this thread (I'm not normally a subscriber of debian-project) and after reading it, I wanted to correct a couple of points.
First, the topic of the GFDL license that the debianHELP site uses has been brought up in the past. Today I replied to the user that mentioned this thread at <http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index&action=viewtopic&topic=6807&forum=26&start=0>. In that thread I pointed out some of the problems in changing the site's license and give my own preference/strategy of how I'm going to do it. Secondly, Jeroen mentioned: > - by means of their footer, they claim that all comments and messages > are GFDL'd. debianHELP has been around since 2Q/3Q 2000. The decision was made at that time to put all content of the site under the GFDL. This is explained in the Site FAQ <http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=1#4>. > The legality of this is doubtful, but the claim is made, > and I'm not very comfortable with it. Why would the legality of this be doubtful? The above-mentioned FAQ states bluntly in bold print, "If you do not agree to have your text/work licensed under the GFDL please do not submit anything to this web site!" Each and every time someone posts an article or a forum message or reply, they are presented with the text, "Important: By submitting this article/story/text, you agree to have your work/words licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)." If there is a problem with the legality of this, I'd like to know about it. > of the site is due to the postnuke and phpbb projects (the latter > having their own copyright notices being removed from the site). The forum I use is a PostNuke module called phpBB_14. It is a heavily modified fork of the old phpBB version 1.4 maintained by a team based in Germany. It displays no copyright notice that I know of. Credit for the forum is displayed on various pages and you can see those credits on debianHELP (see 2/3 of the way down <http://www.debianhelp.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB_14&file=index> for one example). I consider allegations of not acknowledging software authors to be fairly serious. For the various PostNuke modules I use you can easily reference them at <http://www.debianhelp.org/index.php?module=Credits>, the standard "credit" URL for a PostNuke site. In the future, please do some checking before making such claims. -- If computers have made me more productive, how come I'm not working less? Who's getting the profits from my increased productivity?!
