Wiki submission license, credits, and policy.

[Jamie Jones]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 01:43 -0300, Mauricio Hernandez wrote:

> IMHO, I'd say that there is no way a DocTeam, or any small group of
> people/volunteers could ever be effective on controling who copy&paste
> info from other lincensed sources.
> 
> Therefore, if we can't control it (can we??) it is the user's
> responsibility to pre-check license conflicts.

While the user should pre-check license conflicts, I can't help but
point out, that if we can enforce licenses on applications, and prevent
license contamination there, it should also be possible to do it with
documentation. (Although, it should be noted that the current choice of
licenses fails the DFSG tests, so it would be hard to share that
documentation with Debian, and in turn to incorporate their
documentation, but that's another topic)

> 
> Especially, in the case of wikis, they are born to be wide open areas
> where content is freely available (free as in freedom).

A wiki is merely a convenient way to utilise group collaboration on
creating and editing documentation, otherwise I fail to see how a wiki
is different to a text file, or hypertext page which are both common
methods of freely distributing information.

> 
> "Hell is repeating someone else's mistakes" (JPS)
> 
Love your sig :)

I hope we can avoid that here.
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