Bug#238245: Debian website's copyright and license suggestions?
Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Hi Francesco! > > You wrote: > >> A less difficult solution is avoiding copyright assignements and simply >> asking for a license change: each copyright holder should be tracked, >> contacted and asked to agree with the relicensing. > > I'm afraid that this will turn out to be infeasable. Lots and lots of > people have contributed to the webpages. To make it even worse, a lots > of translators used to work though general cvs accounts (like "dutch" or > "french"), making it even harder to find out who did what. In that case... If you can get a legal opinion that the pages were created as works-for-hire, then SPI actually does hold the copyrights. Otherwise, you're stuck rewriting the webpages, if you want to be legal. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#238245: Debian website's copyright and license suggestions?
Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > Hello members of debian-legal, > > It isn't currently well known that Debian website's license is Open > Publication License, which has been judged to be non-free, and > therefore needs to be changed. We know. ;-) > Currently web pages are "Copyright © 1997-2005 SPI" and license terms > linking to Open Publication license are available at > http://www.de.debian.org/license >. However SPI has not been > collecting any paper work to transfer copyrights like FSF does, and > probably many contributors do not even know about that their work is > automatically copyrighted by SPI. Well, actually, it isn't see below. > So basically there is two questions: > > Does missing paperwork create a problem? Yes. In the US, without a paper transfer, copyright is retained by the author (except in work-for-hire cases, which actually might be relevant, but I doubt it). That means that the copyright statements on the web pages are wrong. > And what would be good license for Debians web pages? (This is about > content, the scripts used in generation are GNU GPL or otherwise > freely licensed.) Either GNU GPL v. 2 or 2-clause BSD or MIT/Expat. Author's choice, I think. There is little harm in having different licenses for different web pages. Each time a (manually generated) web page is changed significantly, the copyright statement should be updated and the license agreed to by the new author. > Because copyright is currently claimed by SPI Inc, and SPI's board > meeting is coming rather soon, I brought this issue to SPI's > secretarys attention, but SPI board would appreciate some suggestion > what they should decide about license change. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "(Instead, we front-load the flamewars and grudges in the interest of efficiency.)" --Steve Lanagasek, http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/09/msg01056.html
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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 HI! To make cryptoinmain.en.html strict HTML, I have done some changes (not ot the content) can you please compare URL http://www.us.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain.en.html with URL http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/dwww/legal/ cryptoinmain.en.html The patch is at http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/diff/ cryptoinmain-20051023.diff If the questions look okay and there are no objections, I will commit the change on monday. greetings Jutta - -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkNbo0EACgkQOgZ5N97kHkcT4wCgjXWKDTv0jziHvnZ0+aqXX8Ne xHcAnjzDXhFQNfqE7e0GbYAWVYCFLuS3 =VcZ4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cryptoinmain.en.html
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, first message was without subject. HI! To make cryptoinmain.en.html strict HTML, I have done some changes (not ot the content) can you please compare URL http://www.us.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain.en.html with URL http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/dwww/legal/ cryptoinmain.en.html The patch is at http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/diff/ cryptoinmain-20051023.diff If the questions look okay and there are no objections, I will commit the change on monday. greetings Jutta - -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkNbq1gACgkQOgZ5N97kHkeaoACgkD5vgBP4UWP3kH/L1R0RGyya 4cYAoKVrD7Ej79hkcduEyzO0qaySnsgj =KF8j -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cryptoinmain.en.html
Jutta Wrage wrote: URL http://www.us.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain.en.html with URL http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/dwww/legal/ cryptoinmain.en.html You have the following table: To: http://www.spi-inc.org/";>Software in the Public Interest, http://www.debian.org/";>Debian Project From: Roszel C. Thomsen II, Partner, href="http://www.t-b.com/";>Thomsen & Burke LLP Date: July 31, 2001 Re: Exploring Cryptographic Software in Debian's Main Archive May be you should add 'valign="top"' to the tags -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cryptoinmain.en.html
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.10.2005 um 17:48 schrieb Raúl Fuenzalida: May be you should add 'valign="top"' to the tags Sorry, but this would be a new change. Neither neccessary to get it readable nor to get it HTML strict. I am working on switching to strict DTD and not on time eating layout changes, where not neccessary this time. My question is, if there are objections against the changes and not wishes for additional changes. Have still to walk through 575 errorness files. greetings Jutta - -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkNbt0AACgkQOgZ5N97kHkcHcwCgxHvD0i/4mzXYtihFXKxcNdlY Q/kAnRJgVMFNhY+1JAFERTwOWZmHCkZx =jQK/ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: cryptoinmain.en.html
Jutta Wrage wrote:
can you please compare
URL http://www.us.debian.org/legal/cryptoinmain.en.html
with URL http://www.witch.westfalen.de/debian/dwww/legal/
cryptoinmain.en.html
I did read that one of the TODOs is to remplace the tables for something
else. Well, in the beginning of that page there's a table, here my
suggestion for remplace it:
#tbl dt { float: left; width: 4em; }
#tbl dd { margin-left: 4em; }
To
http://www.spi-inc.org/";>Software in the Public
Interest, http://www.debian.org/";>Debian Project
From:
Roszel C. Thomsen II, Partner, href="http://www.t-b.com/";>Thomsen & Burke LLP
Date:
July 31, 2001
Re:
Exploring Cryptographic Software in Debian's Main Archive
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Re: cryptoinmain.en.html
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Am 23.10.2005 um 18:44 schrieb Raúl Fuenzalida:
I did read that one of the TODOs is to remplace the tables for
something else. Well, in the beginning of that page there's a
table, here my suggestion for remplace it:
#tbl dt { float: left; width: 4em; }
#tbl dd { margin-left: 4em; }
There are already styles for definition lists. But as the mail header
is not really a definition list, ther will be something class
"mailheader" later for all mail headers to use.
In the case of using HTML tags we have to honour that some user
agents may tell blind people about the kind of list coming next. I am
sure, we have to invesigate that before making changes.
greetings
Jutta
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events and partners commited - please update your trees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! There have been many files to be edited in events, but with minor errors (mostly one per page). Here we are now - down to less than 500 files not validating as HTML strict. The twelve Files in ports are from yaboot-howto which is produced from sgml by debiandoc package. Files valid invalid %invalid validate-errors-banners 69 69 0 0% validate-errors-Bugs 127 127 0 0% validate-errors-CD 238 34 204 85% validate-errors-consultants 932 932 0 0% validate-errors-devel 111911190 0% validate-errors-distrib 149 149 0 0% validate-errors-doc 147 60 87 59% validate-errors-events 139413940 0% validate-errors-international 390 311 79 20% validate-errors-intro 186 186 0 0% validate-errors-legal 31 22 9 29% validate-errors-logos 15 15 0 0% validate-errors-MailingLists 110 110 0 0% validate-errors-mirror 106 106 0 0% validate-errors-misc 131 115 16 12% validate-errors-News 454845444 0% validate-errors-partners 47 47 0 0% validate-errors-ports 506 494 12 2% validate-errors-releases 417 417 0 0% validate-errors-rootdir 220 220 0 0% validate-errors-searchtmpl 16 0 16 100% validate-errors-security 8336832412 0% validate-errors-vote 313 312 1 0% validate-errors-y2k 26 26 0 0% All files 19573 19133 440 2% greetings Jutta - -- http://www.witch.westfalen.de http://witch.muensterland.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkNcCD8ACgkQOgZ5N97kHkc6BgCeJAYimVbjYWdDr7d/utBfZv8p RHYAoJWk1gDCCJTNkA8FiW9XBsrhvLUm =ykfy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
