Hello, I have read your blog about the wiki[1] with interest, and I have some comments and questions.
Joey Hess wrote: > I doubt that trying to get the whole wiki licensed under a specific > license is a good use of time. My intend is to have a default license, and to get it applied to existing content that have unclear license. BTW, I don't think we should have a single license for the wiki : some specific pages, like DebianReferences, could have a specific license. Can you clarify "good use of time" ? > Since the wiki is not a package that we ship, but is instead a ad-hoc > collection of many documents, and many conversations, I also don't see > the point of a single consistent license, or any reason to be bothered > by content whose license is not specified. Actually, I have on my plan to create a debian package with a (partial) copy of the wiki, so offline users can access read it on the CD. Also, I consider that the content of most pages should be moved to official documentations regularly (package documentation, README.Debian, www.debian.org.etc...). Finally I wish it were possible to share|fork|patch documentations, including wiki pages, among distributions, with something like git+wml (I'll post about this soon). > Be very wary of anything that makes contributing to the wiki require > jumping through more legal hoops than it takes to contribute to > lists.debian.org or bugs.debian.org. Chilling effects can work both > ways. I don't understand the point here, the wiki already has a license[2] (or it could be considered "public domain" due to the missing /copyright.html). Also, If someone don't want to contribute some code or some documentation because of the license, then fine he shouldn't ! (Yes, Debian has high standards, that's why I chose it). If one wonders why I chose to add "www license" to the subject of this mail, it's simply because the website has the same "problem". Franklin [1] http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/All_Seated_on_the_Ground/ [2] http://web.archive.org/web/200504/wiki.debian.net/copyright.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
