Wiki submission license, credits, and policy.

[Corey Burger]

On 11/10/05, Jamie Jones <hentai_yagi at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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)

DFSG-freeness was a topic discussed at Mataro when the licenses were
chosen. Benj. Mako Hill was of the opinion that we shouldn't really
worry about it, it would sort itself in time.

As for author credits, they exist on the wiki. See "Get Info". As far
as I read the license, you don't need to put them on the actual wiki
page, they just need to be available easily. Now Get Info should
really be renamed History, but that is topic for another matter...

Corey