On 2013-02-04 12:42, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
What do we do here? The texts haven't been committed with a license
attached
and as far as I can see from the commit log, we haven't (yet) listed
the
pictures origins or licenses. I see two ways forward:
a) make the whole report "All rights reserved, texts belong to their
writers"
(aka proprietary), copyright.tex file says only this.
b) ask all contributors if that's OKay for them, then put all the
document
under GPLv2, list the pictures origins and licenses in the
copyright.tex.
We generally have tried to mention the license to people, but the main
point I would make is that people have written the pieces specifically
for us to (modify further and) use in the report. This is quite
different from if we were taking pre-existing texts and wanting to use
them. In terms of normal Debian processes, it's more like taking
patches from the BTS than downloading software from the web.
For photos we often used pre-existing photos, and therefore we have
always made sure to get specific permission for the use, and
re-licensing, of each image. That's why when I wanted to add images
quickly this year, I only used images from my own photo set, to avoid
the delay of waiting for responses.
For the blog items for this year's report I asked each author for
permission before including them -- dates of replies are noted in
comments in impressions.tex
P.S. That makes me think that for future DebConf final reports, we
should
really make sure that contributors agree on the license when
committing
their articles.
Perhaps if we have a wiki page for claiming sections of the report
again, that page could include a note on the licence.
(In practice I suspect that it is likely the only reuse of the material
will be in the reports for later years.)
--
Moray
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