wiki: Re: license for tldp
Subject:
Fwd: license for tldp
From:
Chris Watkins ####@####.####
Date:
7 May 2009 10:19:36 +0100
Message-Id: <393c781d0905070214o72104734u4774c8e3618e949b@mail.gmail.com>
Is there plan to update the license of the TLDP wiki to
CC-BY-SA<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>soon?
This is now possible because of an agreement between Creative Commons, FSF
and the Wikimedia Foundation. This is important as the majority of open
online content is CC-BY-SA rather than GFDL, especially as Wikimedia is
taking steps to change to the CC-BY-SA license. This would enable the wiki
to share information more easily with other sites, including blogs.
The cutoff date is about August this year, after which GFDL content cannot
be changed, so it will be will be cut off in a backwater.
The CC license has advantages in simplicity. It also gives the ability to
print a physical copy without having to include all the pages of the license
(a link will do).
Considering the use in software manuals, I could understand a choice of dual
license, like the one being considered for Wikipedia, but being able to
share with CC-BY-SA content would be valuable.
A few links here<http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Interoperability_between_Creative_Commons_licenses_and_GFDL>give
you more info.
The current license - http://wiki.tldp.org/LdpWikiDefaultLicence - is a
little unclear to me: "On any LDP Web site page where no other licence
applies expressly, the following applies: " followed by the GFDL statement.
So if there is another license statement, is that in addition to or instead
of the GFDL?
Cheers,
Chris
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