Hi all, I wonder why the Codex is under the GPL. I know similar questions have been discussed before on this list. But, as far as I know, the issue GPL vs. CC has not been discussed. I also know that there are good reasons for choosing the GPL, e.g. to be license-compliant with WP itself.
Anyway, I think that a code license such as the GPL is not well-suited for documentary work. (I think this is obvious enough, so I don't explain it further. But of course, we can discuss this. There are also many related discussions to be found on the web.) In my opinion, the CC-BY-SA license is equivalent to the intention of the GPL, and it's a much better, because more precise and specific license for a work such as the WP Codex. Therefore, I'm proposing to relicense the Codex to the CC-BY-SA. Of course, one cannot simply relicense other people's work. All contributors of non-trivial content would have to agree, and the content of those who didn't agree, would have to be removed. Still, I think this is possible. Wikipedia itself had a similar problem when they realized that they are stuck with the GFDL. And as far as I know, Wikimedia has been able to perform a license update, despite the fact that Wikipedia has *many* more contributors than the WP codex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia#Content_and_internal_structure http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:License_update What do you think, especially the main contributors? NB: I'm not a lawyer, and although I'm quite familiar with copyright legislations, I'm not at all an expert. By the way, you might wonder why I'm proposing this; the reason is that we are currently working on a new German documentation, and the GPL is very bad to handle questions like translatabilty, or compatibility with documentary work in other legislations than the US. Best regards, Alex -- Alex Günsche, Zirona OpenSource-Consulting Blogs: http://www.zirona.com/ | http://www.regularimpressions.net *** Want to test the shiny new release of InstantUpgrade? *** http://www.zirona.com/blog/software/instantupgrade-10-beta/ _______________________________________________ wp-docs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs
