On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 12:25 -0500, Richard Franks wrote: > I think this is all a bit overkill. I don't see any license other than > the description "this mailing list is for open discussion and > feedback", for this mailing list.. yet these potentially copyrightable > messages are mirrored by openmoko.com, gmane, etc. > > Why isn't everyone being sued?
Right, there are many issues, but lets just focus on the wiki right now ;) > In our case, the source was either: > a) An intentional email sent without copyright notice, to a > membership-unknown public mailing list, with full knowledge that it > would be stored and made freely available. > b) An intentional edit made to a freely accessible public wiki. > > I don't see a legal case being made out of this. Right, but better to protect ourselves. Also, companies, like FIC/OpenMoko have to take every precaution. So, if we want our content included, we need to be cautious as well. <snip /> > Why don't we take a snapshot of the current wiki, and reword the > content into a new licensed wiki? It's less work than doing everything > all over again, we lose no contributions, and it's an opportunity to > reorganise a bit. > > I'll volunteer to do a chunk of that work if we go that route. > > Richard Yes, this is an option. Who is related to opentogo? And/or, what is the best way to go about this approach. I also thought about going through and deleting a page, putting a GNU FDL 1.2 statement at the top of the page, and then summarizing/redoing the old content. This way, any future contributions are protected. Cool? Yet again, I propose we do this at 11:59 PM PST SAT JAN 27 so we can knock this out. What do you think? Jon > > On 1/27/07, David Schlesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 1/27/07 3:26 AM, "Jon Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 16:21 +0100, Harald Welte wrote: > > >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 07:29:47AM -0500, Richard Franks wrote: > > >>> then there is no copyright issue as the contributors have implicitly > > >>> put their words into the public domain? > > > > > > This is not true and for sure in the US, where the instant someone > > > contributes, their contribution is governed under copyright. > > > > Correct. You can't "implicitly" put anything into the public domain under US > > copyright law: you'd have to make a specific and concrete declaration to do > > so, or (more usually) simply wait for the copyright on it to expire... > > > > If you're interesting in folding all the Wiki content under the FDL, and you > > want to avoid running afoul of potential copyright entanglements, you're > > going to have to start over from scratch, I believe. > > > > You're also going to need to have each participant explicitly agree > > (probably when their account is created) to get explicit agreement that they > > abandon any interests they hold in any content they create on the site and > > assign copyright to such content to "The OpenMoko Project" or whatever. You > > might well also want a statement to the effect that any content they submit > > must not be derivative of material held under copyright elsewhere and be > > free of other encumbrances, etc., etc... > > > > This could get complicated, see...? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
