On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 02 March 2013 10:26:14 anatoly techtonik wrote: > > The license clause is attached to MoinMoin wiki software, the code pieces > > is a content and are not affected. GPL clause can be removed. It is not > > needed (as the /moin/ prefix in the URL). > > Although the remark about the GPL applying to the MoinMoin software is > correct, and thus the content is not GPL-licensed, this doesn't mean that > the > content is actually licensed in any explicit way whatsoever. In other > words, "removing" the GPL (or actually not applying it to the content in > the > first place) doesn't give anyone any right to do anything with the content > other than to use it on the Python Wiki itself. > > This is an unfortunate situation that was never resolved because I seem to > remember some people regarding the unclear licensing as somehow being > beneficial - the only benefit I can think of is that people perhaps don't > spam the Internet with advertising-laden clones of the Python Wiki, but > maybe > these exist anyway - and so any content submitted to the Wiki is taking a > one-way trip there. > > One could track down the authors of any pages to get their permission for > further redistribution and use of their contributions, but no attempt has > been made to do this in general. > I think it is fair to put non-HomePage wiki content to CC0 / Public Domain unless specified otherwise. If you want to preserve your rights - go publish the content in your blog and supply a link. Tracking down authors is a useless activity - nobody will do this, so I'd not make things more complicated for contributors and users. Wiki is for sharing, not for placing restrictions on each other. -- anatoly t.
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