Ubuntu Wiki to be re-licensed to CC BY-SA

[Martin Owens]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 04:33 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > The license of content of the Ubuntu Wiki has always been publically
> > listed as copyright Canonical Ltd. 
> 
> Actually, that's not always been true (there was no such notice on
> October 14th, 2004), but AFAICT can be proven at least starting from
> December 10th, 2004...
> 
> And did Canonical re-license content added before that without any
> notice to the authors?  ;-) 

I'm sure it's a fascinating legal haggle which could net millions for a
bunch of lawyers somewhere. But I don't think it really helps us move
forward, I'm happy it's all free culture and that the license has been
made firm. That's what's required so people know what they're
contributing to.

Although I can't find anything about transferring copyright of wiki page
content; The copyright Canonical on every ubuntu website is
brow-furrowing. But then again, I don't really care too much as it's
been fixed in this instance.

Regards, Martin