This all seems reasonable and appropriate as a way to move forward... In fact, there's no particular real-world danger of a "legal case". First of all, no one stands to make or lose any money on the content in question, so any action would be purely symbolic.
Secondly, the way to start if one wished to exercise one's control over one's own material would be to send a "cease and desist" message to whomever ran the wiki to have the material taken down or better-attributed or whatever... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Franks Sent: Sat 1/27/2007 1:42 PM To: OpenMoko Subject: Re: OMG wiki license On 1/27/07, Jon Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. Agreed - but I think the risk here is so minimal, that we can decide upon a license and push the deadline back one week, which would give contributors a chance to add the new license to their own pages. Pros: * We may get revised/improved/edited content by increasing the number of people involved. * Intent or nuance will not be accidentally changed. > 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? Unless we have any parties - FIC, individual contributors or editors - who feel that extending that deadline by one week would be putting them under additional risk, then I'd say +1 week is an appropriate response to a pragmatic estimate of the extreme unlikelihood of the occurrence or significance of the threat. Richard _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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