Hello Daniel, On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 00:08 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Is there anything a non-DD can do to help get the debian wiki licensing > mess straightened out? I'd like to help, but I'm not a DD.
An overview of the situation is available at [1] and [2]. Our plan is prepare some pages that present the situation ([3], [4]) then ask people for comments. (on debian-legal, then debian-user and debian-devel) Contribution/comments/review of the pages [3] and [4] are welcome. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms [2] http://bugs.debian.org/385797 [3] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms/Proposals [4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/LicencingTerms/RelicensingStrategy > Also, I'd like to point out that this is something that I'm going to > have to set up a separate wiki because of, because the current wiki > situation doesn't allow for my use case. > If you write a "standalone" documentation, then it's ok to apply specific license. Have a look at : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/ http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReference > All the stuff I do will of course be DFSG-free, I just want to make > sure I can incorporate what others do into my own works, assuming them Incorporating external stuff is another tricky part of [3] (especially if we choose Public domain or CC0, because importing copyrighted stuff in a PD work is ... wrong ) > meant for such to happen (which is what is *implied* by a wiki, by > *not* what is actually legally the case). Wikipedia have interesting comments on that implied vs legal aspect : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#.28Almost.29_everything_written_down_is_copyrighted So to make it short : You can create a "book" on our wiki, with a specific license. Also, you are welcome to review the page [3] and [4]. Regards Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
