Re: Documentation wiki: license requirement?

> Hi,
>
>
> G. Roderick Singleton schrieb:
> > Further, as a member of the CC I recommend that you implement the
> > changes necessary so that the documentation project can use material
> > generated on the wiki.
>
> I cannot heal things that have been missed whe the wiki started. So I
> cannot apply any licensing terms to stuff that is already on the wiki.
> If I did it was simply illegal.
>
> > In the meantime, we are stuck with the current
> > set of imposed restrictions.
> >  
>
> No - if there is something put to the wiki, authors should write a
> licensing notice.
>
> Take Jean's example: there is a documentation available under Creative
> Commons license. This might be put to the wiki with a disclaimer that it
> is under Creative Commons. Unfortunately it cannot be mixed with stuff
> here at the documentation project, as we now, that our documetnations
> are under PDL.
> This is a sad situation - but woul it help to establish yet another
> restriction?
>
> What would happen if we allow PDL-only documentations at the wiki?
> Simple as that: Jean's material would not be published at the wiki but
> somwhere far away from the OOo site.
>
> What would happen if we allow Creative Commons at the ooo website? Would
> it help to mix current docs with CC documentation? No it wouldn't, as no
> matter what our rules say the licenses are not compatible.
>
> Btw. Louis attempt was to put all wiki content under LGPL - this would
> have been even worse for documentation (PDL and LGPL dont fit very
> well). But this was only by request of Nakata Maho who considers all his
> contributions at the wiki to be LGPL.
>