Am Dienstag, 10. Januar 2006 22:52 schrieb Ashley Yakeley: > Udo Stenzel wrote: > > Can we please settle on a "This work may be used freely for any purpose > > and comes without any expressed or implied warranty" and just _link_ to > > existing works that don't fit in? Thinking about the subject matter is > > hard enough, thinking about creating licensing pitfalls is best left to > > lawyers and other parasi^W specialists. > > Should we make public domain mandatory
No, we shouldn't, since putting a work into the public domain isn't possible in all countries. What Udo proposed is not to put the work into the public domain (saying: "I pass on all my rights.") but to license the work under a very permissive license. > or should we allow people to add notices to pages for other licenses? Maybe we should start with forcing everything on the wiki to be licensed under a permissive license. We could use the one Udo proposed. Or we could use a BSD-style license so that we can incorporate parts of already existing BSD-style-licensed material. BSD is also rather permissive. If we discover that this solution is not nice we can still introduce license annotations later. > <http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/HaskellWiki:Community_Portal> Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
