Differences between version 9 and predecessor to the previous major change of WlugWikiLicense.
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| Newer page: | version 9 | Last edited on Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:48:03 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]
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# 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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+!! Contact Point / Questions / Copyright Complaints
+
+The migration process and general wiki copyright issues are currently being handled by MattBrown of the WlugCommittee. If you have any questions regarding the migration progress, or you believe there is problematic content in the wiki that needs to be dealt with please contact him.
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+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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+!! Previous License Situation
+
+Up until Mon 18 July 2005 the license for the use of the wiki and its content was not explicitly stated. The page footer stated that "Copyright is retained by the original authors of the page" however no details were given on what permissions were granted to viewers of the wiki and how the content may be redistributed or reused in other mediums. Obviously this was not an ideal scenario.
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+At the [June 2005 Committee Meeting|CommitteeMeetingTopics.2005-06-20] the WlugCommittee resolved to pursue a plan to progressively bring the wiki under a CreativeCommons Wiki License. This is an ongoing process and will involve gaining permission from a wide range of authors and contributors to the wiki. At the point of transition to the new license around 80-90% of the wiki content was able to be licensed under the CreativeCommons license.
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!! Relicensing Procedure
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** 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
-
-The migration process and general wiki copyright issues are currently being handled by MattBrown of the WlugCommittee. If you have any questions regarding the migration progress, or you believe there is problematic content in the wiki that needs to be dealt with please contact him.
-
-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.
