On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, at 10:11 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > Sorry for the lack of reply, I've been quite busy lately. I also don't > have a great answer for you. We cannot post-hoc enforce a licence on > content: anything that is there is copyright to the actual author. We > can enforce a licence on new content, but relicensing the existing > content is quite a time-consuming process: first finding who wrote it > in the first place, and then getting in contact with them. The former > is difficult because we have moved from twiki -> MoinMoin -> ikiwiki, > in most cases losing history. We can find the history, but it takes a > lot of time. Secondly, this content dates back in some cases to 2004, > and contacting people after 14 years is notoriously difficult.
I have seen other projects tackle relicensing by *attempting* to contact all contributors and explicitly giving some timeout - "if we don't receive any objections in a month, we'll go ahead". This seems like a sensible compromise - most people don't care about the licensing of two sentences they wrote on a wiki five years ago. Of course, finding the list of contributors and valid email addresses for each one would still be quite a lot of work, but that strategy makes it a manageable amount rather than a crazy amount. Is the history from the previous wiki systems preserved somewhere? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg