Am 02.04.2014 14:26, schrieb Antti Kantee: >> I don't want to nit-pick, I honestly don't know. But I guess GitHub >> wikis do not have categories like MediaWikis do, do they. > The Github wiki seems rather spartan. I have to admit that I'd like to > have something with short, stable URLs and some way to locate dead links. > > Speaking of which, I also added the phrase: > "Do not change titles after an article has been published, since that > will alter the article's URL and render any hyperlinks to the article > invalid." Thanks for pointing that out, I was thinking of changing the title of "netperf". > (yes, there are some articles that don't adhere to the category rules, > the most prominent example being "wiki guidelines" ;) > >> I heard a while ago that at least in Germany, you cannot voluntarily put >> your work under public domain. I am not sure if that information is >> still valid, but it probably is that way in many countries. Is there a >> case where it would be problematic for an editor to refer to the Rump >> kernel wiki as their source (BY)? If not, I would advocate CC-BY to make >> things clear. > When writing the guidelines, I was deciding between CC0 and CC-BY, and > since CC0 does not prohibit quoting the information source, I concluded > that CC-BY would just unnecessarily complicate things for anyone wanting > to use the information. For example, if someone copypastes a command or > a command sequence from the wiki to another document, would they be > obliged by the attribution clause? If I were doing the copypasting, I'd > prefer not to ponder if I have to write "export RUMP_SERVER=foo (source: > wiki.rumpkernel.org)". > > Does that make sense? (and of course assuming there's nothing wrong > with the legality of the link that Justin posted) Dr Kreutzer concludes that the CC0 does what it's supposed to do, also under German law, and I am no one to argue with that (thanks for the link, Justin!). Your example makes perfect sense, I had not thought of it that way.
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