Am 27/01/11 06:57, schrieb Satoru Matsumoto:
Sascha 'saigkill' Manns wrote:
Kostas Koudaras <warlordfff@gmail.com> wrote at Wednesday 26 January 2011:
* How should we deal with articles from external sites in OWN? Alternatives may be:
- We won't introduce articles from external sites anymore.
- We will just introduce sites name, authors name, title and link URL with short comment (For example: "In this article, the author explains how to ...") by editors.
Sascha can you please give further information about external sites? What I would like to know is if I write an article in my blog an blogspot am I an external site or you refer as external sites sites like Linux format and Softpedia?
From my POV all Sites who are outside *.opensuse.org are external. What helps is, if the Blogger license their work as CC. Then we can handle the Article better. So if you are an Blogger without an CC (or another free license) please put it on your Blogsite. Ideas you can get in http://saigkill.wordpress.com
To make things understandable, I'm going to categorize articles which we have in OWN now. # [copyright owner / license]
One of the important thing here is, that copyright and license are not the same thing. Only the copyright owner can decide which license to apply for its works.
1. Internal articles 1.1. Articles on wiki.opensuse.org (including $LANG.o.o) [Novell, Inc. / GFDL 1.2] 1.2. Articles on *.opensuse.org (including {news,lizards,lists}.o.o) [Novell, Inc. / undefined (*1)]
2. External articles 2.1. Personal blogs 2.1.1. Blogs which are aggregated on planet.o.o (except 1.2) [each author (*2) / various (*3)] 2.1.2. Blogs other than 2.1.1 [each author / various (*3)] 2.2. Articles on organozations' sites 2.2.1. Articles on FLOSS organizations or communities' sites (Linux.com, kde.org, TDF, ...) [each organization or community / various] 2.2.2. Articles on corporations' site (linux-magazine.com, h-online.com, ...) [each corporation / various (*4)]
*1 It is just mentioned "All rights reserved." *2 There's a description on the foot of planet.o.o: "© 2010 Pascal Bleser and the openSUSE Community.", though. *3 Often not defined clearly. *4 In most cases, "All rights reserved."
You can see, most of the articles are *not clearly permitted* to reprint, republish and modify.
We don't have any right to change the licenses of articles on external sites. But how about those on internal sites? That's why I wrote in the top post:
- Can we ask Novell to apply CC BY-SA 3.0 license for every content on *.opensuse.org including Wiki? If that'll be OK, most of the problems will be solved.
In addtion, if we can apply CC BY-SA license for the articles which are aggregated on planet.o.o (2.1.1 in above list), the situation would be much better. Is there any good way to get those authors' consent?
# This is the reason why I asked in the top post: "Do we need # Contributor License Agreement?"
Best,
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en "Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). " So you likely have to name the original authors, too (or maybe at least link to the history) - if the wiki would use CC. In my (not payed or covered by an insurance..) opinion it would be great if the wiki pages would be licensed with a CC license. But the issue of switching to an other license is not an easy doing - if you are very cautious you have to assure that all the original authors are agreeing to that change. Regards pistazienfresser -- - openSUSE profile: https://users.opensuse.org/show/pistazienfresser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org