Thanks for the reply guys, I'll pass this on to the powers that be, but it sounds like this is prob a dead end.
Are we able to track down the original authors? Is it worth sending a mass email out to those who've edited this wiki page to get an OK for a fully free license? I agree, why post code to the world if you don't want anyone to use it. Thanks! Justin On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 02 March 2013 17:08:23 anatoly techtonik wrote: > > > > 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. > > I agree that if you're contributing stuff to some site where the obvious > intention is to share things with others, you probably shouldn't expect to > restrict how that content is used, especially if those contributions > involve > editing other people's work, but the lack of any explicit licensing terms > means that we can't just apply CC0 to what we already have. > > I don't think that it would be too difficult to get people to agree to > relicensing, but I was just saying that nobody seemed to think it was worth > doing in the first place. Personally, I do think it is worth it if we are > to > regard the content as useful or valuable, and if Justin wants to use the > decorators content in some other context, I encourage him to at least > consider that approach for that page before giving up. > > Paul >
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