On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 15:59 +0100, GNUtoo wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that buglabs wiki had no license, > Then buglabs people fixed it(adding a license to it),but they noticed > that openembedded's wiki was in the same situation. > > Why do we need a license? > Simply because by default copyright law don't allow modification or > copying of a work.So if some people modify the wiki,they may be > infringing the copyright of the previous author. > > Only the previous author can exercise his right(only the copyright owner > can sue someone) > > That could be a problem,and it would be safer to add a license for > future contribution,to prevent occurrences of such issues > > Note that it would be difficult to ask permission to all the > contributors of the wiki for changing the copyright of their work. > > I'm open to every free license for my small contributions(from > non-copyleft licenses to copyleft ones)
I would vote for the same one that the user manual has (Creative Commons + Attribution, iirc). -- Tom Rini <[email protected]> Mentor Graphics Corporation _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
