Re: Website content licensing

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

I had a discussion with Bradley Kuhn at last year's Linux Foundation
Collaboration Summit - it's not possible to dual license these two
copylefts.  The GNOME Documentation team is licensing all new
documentation for applications (and on library.gnome.org) under a
CC-BY 3.0 license.[1]

I agree we should start the process to re-license the wiki and I'd
recommend moving forward with a CC-BY 3.0 license for both the wiki
and the website.

Paul

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Richard Stallman <rms gnu org> wrote:
>    The problem is that the actual content of the Gnome wiki is not licensed.
>    Relicense all the content can be a hard task :/
>
> It is very important to start working on it.
>
> The first step is to ask everyone contributing henceforth to agree to
> a suitable license for his past contributions too.  After a while of
> that, much of the old text will have been relicensed, and someone can
> start working on asking other past contributors to agree.
>
>    Anyway, I think that would be a good idea set by default cc-by-sa 3.0
>    for new written documents created from now.
>
> Anything that might want to be put into a GNU manual should be under
> the GFDL.  It could be a dual license GFDL | CC-BY-SA.
>
>
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