discuss: default licence
Subject:
Re: [discuss] default licence
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
19 Sep 2008 06:20:08 +0100
Message-Id: <20080919051734.GC2420@davespc>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:05:25AM +0200, jdd wrote:
> We have to choose a licence for the wiki. The boilerplate licence is not
> fitted for such support.
>
> The best choice is probably the FDL licence. A second choice is the
> creative common by-sa. The FDL should then be noted in the footer of any
> wiki page.
>
> I think we should also add the following or something similar:
>
> "LDP documents have to name an author. On the wiki this author is the
> original author of the document if identified and the maintainer, that
> is the people in charge of validating the wiki page before moving it to
> the mirrored site. No author name nor revision history line must be
> included in the document without the prior consent of at least one of
> these two people. Users making changes in a wiki page are identified in
> the History of the document and are encouraged to fill they own wiki
> page.
The above would not be in the license. It's rules regarding what we
accept. If it doesn't meet our rules, it would be removed after
giving reasonable notice to the maintainer.
There may be more than one author. For example, if someone takes over
a doc and extensively revises it so that much of it has changed, then
there are two authors. In some cases, there is so much change that
the original author is not really a co-author anymore and should not
be listed as an author, but still needs to be mentioned and given
credit for initiating the doc.
If the original author is not keeping up with the subject of the doc,
then he shouldn't have authority to give consent to a revison (add a
line to the revision history). Perhaps a majority of the original
authors of LDP docs. are like this. They wrote a doc, but haven't
kept up-to-date on the subject of the doc and some can't be contacted.
So I think that just the current maintainer should be allowed to do
this and perhaps someone the maintainer designates.
>
> The personal wiki page of any subscriber can hold a small curriculum
> vitae, but no advertisement for any non LDP commercial "
>
> the goal of this note is to prevent users to make advertisement for they
> own name/web site for any typo corrected on a page...
>
> advice needed!!
>
> thanks
> jdj
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