I agree about letting the lawyers deal with the IP aspect of this. Where do you see any CC-by license statements in or about the Wiki? I haven't found such a thing, and certainly not in the terms of use for contributions to the overall site.
- Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Frank Peters [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 01:10 To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Wiki for the project - wiki.services.openoffice.org provenance [ ... ] The situation is probably more complex since the physical location of the wiki server is not the US, IIRC. I am not sure whether copyright assignment (or the equivalent in the corresponding jurisdiction) can happen implicitly, or if transfer-in-writing is just a cya measure to make it easily enforceable. To be honest, I don't want to dive too deep into this. > In short, the wiki is a mess. IMHO as we like to say. Absolutely. A mess. I second that emotion. But rather than spending our energy solving this legal problem or pay lawyers to do it, can we find ways to save wiki content that seem to be perfectly legal? (1) All pages that are explicitly licensed under CC-BY should be straightforward. Since it's not an SA license we should be able to relicense under AL (or just stick with CC-BY if this is acceptable). Many of those pages come from the talented folks of ODFAuthors and we may also just ask them to put it under AL for reuse at Apache OOo. (2) All pages originally by Sun/Oracle can undoubtfully be relicensed. [ ... ]
