two problems i see here: - text can't be covered by GPL thus they created CC - some edits in the wiki are anonymous (whom to ask?)
i like that we are adressing this issue now. it is very important. i'd go for CC BY SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ as IMHO this fits the other licenses pretty well On 25.09.2015 03:48, stewart mackenzie wrote: > According to my understanding: > > * 1st agree on a license for the wiki. > * we need to get all wiki contributors to agree on said license. > * we'll need a written statement from all wiki contributors, could be > something simple like "I agree to publish my contributions to the nixos > wiki under the X license" these statements could be on a new mailing > list thread. It'll be mundane receiving these mails but it's needed.. > > (longerterm strategy) > * The Nixos Foundation could use selected parts of the C4.1( > http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22) particularly the licensing bits to create > a nixos contributors 'contract'. It /should/ be difficult but not > impossible to change the license of wiki, nix{pkgs,os,} as this prevents > vendor lockins / foundation / consortium clusterfuck takeovers where > dishonest agents could for example purchase the copyright to a codebase. > i.e. what happened to Berkeleydb and oracle. > * so far all the contribution copyrights to nix{os,pkgs} belong to the > contributors and not the nixos foundation. It is preferable (IMHO) that > copyright remain in the contributors hands and not the nixos foundation. > Foundations can be corrupted, this prevents sillybuggers happening in > foundations. > > Personally, i'd prefer the whole nix{os,pkgs} to be a license like gpl3 > or mpl2. These licenses create prevent an org like redhat form forking > and sublicensing. > > I am not a lawyer. > > There are treasures of untold wealth in nixos let's at least properly > protect them. > > On 25 Sep 2015 01:52, "Vladimír Čunát" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 09/24/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote: > > I'm all for permissive creative commons license. > > It might be good to have the same license for wiki and nix{pkgs,os,} > docs, allowing us to move content around freely. > > I'm no lawyer, too, but I think there's also the issue of the copyright > holder, which might be the foundation, for example. And the question of > "asking everyone" seems rather difficult; moreover, I'm not sure what > kind of approval is needed (I'm afraid a paper-written one in some > jurisdictions). > > > Vladimir > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
