9 Dec
2014
9 Dec
'14
9:51 p.m.
On 09/12/14 21:57, Fred Posner wrote:
It's an interesting question since I (after a very
quick and
non-thorough search) didn't see anything regarding the ownership of
material on the wiki.
That being said, at least in the US, the contribution to a wiki is
generally considered a "copyleft" writing... basically posting a free
license and requiring that it can be edited, with the edits also being
of a free license.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
I believe that this should apply to us as well, since any one posting
on the wiki can have that content modified by anyone else.
The nature of the wiki is a collaborative, living document. I think
the only issue that may befall us is if people have posted someone
else's content onto the wiki.
That being said, we should probably post something onto the site
and/or wiki choosing between either a GNU style license or a Creative
Commons one.
I for one would like as few licenses as possible so if we just cover
the wiki in the Kamailio main license, that would be great...
such as:
"Kamailio is released under GNU Public License v2 (GPLv2). The content
of the website, wiki, and documentation are included within this
license."
Not sure it should be extended to the documentation in the code,
that is
typically part of a module that has a license with it (some are bsd there).
Anyhow, what so ever form, it can be added to the disclaimer section in
the first page:
- http://www.kamailio.org/wiki/start#disclaimer
I am fine with any free to use license. I think that if we do it, it has
to explicitly say:
"Any contribution to the wiki must be done under these terms."
There is a remark about 'illegal' content must be reported (and we will
remove it if proved legit) -- I guess that applies if someone is copying
from other sources with different license and we are notified about that.
Cheers,
Daniel
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