Steven Bosscher writes: > On Monday 11 July 2005 16:50, Bernd Schmidt wrote: > > Steven Bosscher wrote: > > > I guess that, apart from the legal discussion of whether this enough, > > > such a statement would not apply to existing content. It was certainly > > > not my intention to sign over the various Wiki contributions I have > > > made to the FSF. > > > > This strikes me as shortsighted. > > Call it what you will. For me it is a matter of choice and freedom. > > > If we're getting into a situation > > where we can't freely move documentation from one place to another, > > we're shooting ourselves in the foot. > > We already can't do that. We can't move documentation from the manual > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue.
Actually, that's not true because *we* (or to be accurate the FSF) own the copyright on both. > It is that kind of thing that completely takes away any motivation > I might otherwise have to contribute to the manual. > > And again, if you're going to require reviewing and copyright assignment > for wiki contributions, we might as well not have a wiki at all. Good idea. Andrew.
