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Would it be possible to link to Freedom Defined on the wiki itself? On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 17:04, Elizabeth Krumbach <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically > listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. Working with the Ubuntu Community > Council, Canonical has decided to transition the content in the Ubuntu > Wiki to the the CC-BY-SA license[1]. This license is a free culture > license[2] and is the same license used both by the Ubuntu > Documentation wiki [3] since 2007 [4] and by Wikipedia. > > If you are happy with the idea of this transition for the content you > have provided, you do not need to do anything. If you have problems or > issues, please read the feedback section below and contact us. > > The rest of this message provides a rationale, details, and > information on providing feedback. > > = Decision = > > After discussion among the Ubuntu Community Council, it has been > decided that the material on the Ubuntu wiki should be licensed under > a free license, CC-by-SA[1]. The Ubuntu wiki will be changed to make > this clear to those creating or editing pages, and of course external > links from the Wiki to material under other licences will continue to > be welcome. > > This decision is not intended in any way to underestimate the value of > contributions, but rather to ensure that the material on the wiki > complies with the same standards of openness as the Ubuntu project as > a whole. > > = Rationale = > > The Ubuntu wiki is a collaborative resource, and the product of the > Ubuntu community as a whole. Its content, put together by many > contributors with different knowledge and points of view, is immensely > valuable to us all. Unfortunately, at the moment, there is no clear > definition of what rights contributors to the content retain over the > material that they post, or the extent to which other persons are > entitled to copy or modify the material. For example, it would be very > useful to ensure that community contributed content may be shared by > many teams without complex licensing issues, ensuring that those > working on content can concentrate on producing the best information > possible rather than legal negotiations. > > Furthermore, consistent with Ubuntu's philosophy, it is important that > material created for use on the Ubuntu wiki be available for other > communities outside ours to benefit from. Using an open license on the > Ubuntu wiki allows other communities to re-use material which may be > useful to them under terms which are widely recognised in the free > software community. > > = Feedback = > > We would again like to make a good-faith attempt to ensure that > contributors of existing material are happy with this change. We > invite any contributors who have any questions or concerns about this > plan to contact us at <community-coun...@lists.ubuntu.com>. Given that > the re-licensing of http://help.ubuntu.com/community was fairly > uncontroversial and since the aim to re-license the Ubuntu wiki at > some point later has not brought up any objections, we hope that > contributors will welcome it. > > In the absence of a substantial number of objections, this change will > be made to the Ubuntu wiki after approximately one month. > > More details can be found here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing > > Many thanks for your contributions to the Ubuntu Wiki, and we hope > that you will continue to help! > > = Exceptions = > If you want to license a code snippet on the wiki under another open > source license [5], please specify the relevant license in the snippet > itself. In the event that no license is specified, the license > applicable to the code snippet would be the same as that applicable to > any other material on the wiki. > > [1] See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > [2] http://freedomdefined.org/Definition > [3] http://help.ubuntu.com > [4] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000275.html > [5] http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses > > -- > Elizabeth Krumbach // Lyz // pleia2 > http://www.princessleia.com > > -- > loco-contacts mailing list > loco-contacts@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts > -- .sarvōdaya [𝄽#] The Silent Number http://thesilentnumber.me/ ☮♥Ⓐ
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