Wiki submission license, credits, and policy.

[Jamie Jones]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 16:07 +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> Nearly there.
> 
> Documents such as yours, that were not originally created for the wiki,
> and have subsequently inserted are indeed derivative, but that clause
> does NOT apply: the licence of wherever you took the material from
> applies.

And if that license was also a by-sa, then it applies. That should be a
correct interpretation now.

> To be clear: there is no contract to sign. A licence does not bind you
> as author, it binds people who wish to copy your work.

It may be clearer to think of it as me1 who wrote the documentation, and
me2 that thought it would be a good idea to also put it on the Ubuntu
wiki. me2 copied said documentation to the wiki. Perhaps I should get
someone else to do the me2 part.

> As I said originally, there is a decent case for arguing that people
> implied grant licences and/or waive their copyright by posting to the
> wiki.
> 
> In any case, I am already working on a spec which is aimed at clearing
> up the situation.
> 
> > For documentation that was not written especially for the Ubuntu wiki,
> > that I am the copyright holder of - please advise the terms and
> > conditions of acceptance.
> 
> They are determined by the licence under which you release the
> documentation, not by the wiki's license.

Well, existing docs are a mix of all rights reserved, and the cc by-sa,
but I'll relicence the non by-sa ones to a by-sa as I update them.

I'll revert the small credits on the doc that prompted this question
when I fix some small mistakes, and add new section to it (RSI pain
permitting, that will be this weekend)

> 
> > I'm glad that my emails have prompted the general consensus of the
> > intent behind the wiki to be made more clear.
> 
> Ok, I will start a new thread for comments on the spec.

Fair enough, but I haven't seen any objections, just me seeking further
clarification, of which I am currently satisfied with.

Regards,
Jamie
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