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
