On Sat, Aug 7, 2021, at 06:37, Simon Lees wrote:
On 8/6/21 8:53 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 06.08.21 11:44, Richard Brown wrote:
As one of the many copyright holders who contributed under the GFDL I would strongly object to any relicensing of my contributions to the openSUSE wiki.
*any* relicensing? No matter what the new license is?
Any form of relicensing is exceptionally difficult as it requires permission from all former contributors, on a page by page basis this is probably possible for some pages but given others have 10 years of history there is a significant chance that its not even possible to contact everyone anymore as such its probably much safer to just license the new docs under the same license as the wiki docs. This is the main reason i'm reluctant to permit a license change on my contributions unless someone can give a really good reason.
Just wondering as someone with no experience in the legalities of these licenses, but why do the wiki and docs need to be licensed at all?? And why do you (anyone) care what the licence would be? How I see it is: I wrote some manual to help others with something i myself was struggling with. The one thing I would want from that contribution is to help someone with not making the same mistakes or struggling i had. I don’t care what anyone would do with that if they copy it to something or not. Only reason I think a license would make any sense is for one reason: The developer of an application has a manual written which is also part of the application itself. Do the manual needs the same license as the application. But is that even the case now? Also couldn’t we just add a license (reference) to the beginning of every page? /Syds
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