On Thu, 31 May 2007, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > I remember that some people complained about given their copyright > to SPI (or $whoever), I think we should go with both options, I'm > only afraid about having material licensed under incompatible > licenses (could that happen?).
We'd either want them to give the copyright to SPI or license SPI such that SPI can sublicense under any other license. That way we won't have to ever worry about licensing issues again; if we decide in the future that license X is the way to go, we get SPI to license it that way, and we're good to go. > I don't think we should have an endless discussion about something > that would be extremely hard to happen, in my opinion, MIT/Expat > seems to be a good license for the website and I would vote for that > one. Yeah; my personal opinion is MIT/Expat or GPL. I don't really care which we choose. [And if we do what I suggest above, we can always change later.] > Don, I volunteer to help you. I can help with the Brazilian > contributors, we are going to need to also ask help of other > translations team. Thanks! Let me try to steal some verbiage here and come up with a game plan. > 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. 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.) Don Armstrong -- I'd never hurt another living thing. But if I did... It would be you. -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
