["DebianWiki"]


DebianWiki is not licensed under the ["GFDL"]. Whoever keeps suggesting it is, please stop.

We could change it to be really a public domain and collaborative project . PedroM

Please see http://wiki.debian.net/copyright.html for the copyright. I believe the current statement, similar to what is used on ?WardsWiki and ?MeatBall, accomplishes a "public domain" and collaborative project. I do not see what switching to GFDL would accomplish. --MichaelIvey


GFDL would give me more confidence that my contributions are and will stay in the Public Domain.

Although I havened read the GFDL (yet), I think a FSF license is alright. Still documentation is not the same as a wiki... The GFDL might not be a good choice for a wiki? (I have to read it)

"The recommended license for any (new) document in Debian is the GNU General Public License" http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ddp-policy/ch-common.en.html The GNU GPL license is a good license I think. (I did read it)

Anyway a transition to another license is not possible as you MichaelIvey clearly state you do not own the contributions, so you can't republish them under another license. And as the current license will not allow people to copy the text without restrictions, a change in the license will have the implication that all work must be considered lost.

I might not be right about this. If someone could make a proper legal analysis of the [http://wiki.debian.net/copyright.html current copyright]? And all of it's implications?

Tim Blokdijk