+1 to having a default license for the wiki contents. Code samples in a wiki are often meant to be copied and pasted, so it seems appropriate to license them permissively, like an MIT license, or even public domain. I don't feel strongly about the non-code content, but CC-BY would be an easy default.
Thomas On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, at 9:27 AM, Boyuan Yang wrote: > Dear xdg list members, > > I think it might be a great idea if we could explicitly add license > information for freedesktop.org wiki contents. > > I raised this question on #freedesktop@freenode before and heard from > <daniels> that current license is "undefined". > > To be more concrete, I would like to know the license and author for > page [1]. Some downstream projects are including the XML file into > their projects yet the uncertain license of code snippet caused some > copyright troubles. Looking through git history is not helpful since > the original page was converted from moinmoin wiki and the original > author information is lost. > > Daniels also suggested that any new content on wiki can (and should) > have licensing information added. I think that the wiki should also > choose a fallback license. When the author didn't point out the > copyright information for page contents explicitly, the default > license should apply. That could eliminate any licensing problem in > the future. > > > Also sending mail copy to those involved in the discussion for > creating file-manager interface. Hope that the original author could > read the mail and explicitly state the license for page [1]. > > > [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/ > > -- > Regards, > Boyuan Yang > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg