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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:50:31 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
| Older page: | version 8 | Last edited on Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:15:50 am | by NickJohnson | Revert |
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-!! Current Situation
+!!! Wlug Wiki License
-Currently the license for the use of the wiki and its content is not explicitly stated. The page footer states that "Copyright is retained by the original authors of the page" however gives no details on what permissions are granted to viewers of the wiki and how the content may be redistributed or reused in other mediums. Obviously this is not an ideal scenario.
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-At the [June Committee Meeting|CommitteeMeetingTopics.2005-06-20] the WlugCommittee resolved to pursue a plan to progressively bring the wiki under a CreativeCommons Wiki License. It is recognised that this will be an ongoing process and will involve gaining permission from a wide range of authors and contributors to the wiki. The chosen license and the procedure that will be followed to implement it is described below.
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-!! Wiki License
-
-as described in the paragraph above,
this license statement does not yet apply
to the wiki and will not come into effect
until Mon 18 July 2005 00:00 NZST''
+''Please note that this license statement does not come into effect for new contributions
to the wiki until Mon 18 July 2005 00:00 NZST''
[http://www.wlug.org.nz/theme/WLUG05/cc-wiki.gif]%%%
Except where otherwise noted, this wiki is licensed under the [Creative Commons Wiki License|http://creativecommons.org/drafts/wiki_0.5]
@@ -28,23 +21,8 @@
# Imported content (Man pages / LDP HOWTOs / etc)
# Pages that contain content added before Mon 18 July 2005 00:00 NZST where we have not been able to secure permission from all authors that contributed to the current page version to relicense their content under the CreativeCommons Wiki License.
These pages are clearly marked at the bottom of the page as not being available under the CreativeCommons license.
-
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-!! Relicensing Procedure
-
-The procedure for relicensing existing content to the CreativeCommons license will be as follows
-
-# All authors (the Username you logged in to make edits as) should create a HomePage and add code to it indicating their acceptance of the WlugWikiLicense. This denotes that you agree that all past content you have added / editing in the wiki and all future content you add / edit in the wiki may be licensed under the CreativeCommons Wiki License.
-** See ExampleHomePage for details of the code to add to your HomePage to agree to the license.
-** Additions of this sort to [HomePage]s will be closely monitored by the [WikiGnome]s to ensure (as much as is possible) that only the legitimate author can add this to their page.
-# A WikiPlugin will automatically extract this information from all [HomePage]s to construct a list of authors who have allowed their content to be placed under the CreativeCommons Wiki License.
-# A WikiPlugin will analyse the content of each page and the diffs in which that content was added to determine if all authors of the current version have agreed to the CreativeCommons Wiki License and will display the appropriate license information at the bottom of the page to indicate to viewers the license state of the page.
-** For this process only ''substantial'' additions / edits to a page will be considered when determining the licensing status. In the first instance the minor change flag of the diff will be examined, if it is true, the licensing status of that diff will be ignored. If it is not true then the size of the diff is examined, if it is less than ten lines then the licensing status of that diff will also be ignored.
-** The outcome of this process is that online diffs which were not marked as minor changes and added or editing more than 10 lines of content will be considered in determining the license status of a page.
-# The committee will actively seek to contact authors and get their acceptance of the new license to progressively bring more and more of the wiki under the new license.
-# Where an author cannnot be reached or does not agree to the terms of their new license their content will be removed from the wiki and an alternative author will be sought to provide similar replacement content.
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!! Contact Point / Questions / Copyright Complaints
@@ -52,10 +30,5 @@
His contact details are available at MattBrown or http://www.mattb.net.nz/ or you can use the wikilicense at wlug.org.nz role address to email him.
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-!! Licensing Todo List
-
-The following tasks need to be completed to achieve
the goals listed on this page
-
-* Add appropriate
license metadata to each page
and RSS feeds etc
-* Write plugins for manpages / howtos etc so that their content is not actually included in the wiki itself.
+* Information on
the previous
license situation
and relicensing details can be found at WlugWikiRelicensing
