[Fwd: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights]

[Henning Sprang]

This mail landed on the wrong list, and might even be interesting fo the
people on debian-legal (in case there is anybody alive and reading mail
- does anybody? - can we only post to debian-legal if )

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: risc at volumehost.com
> To: linux-fai-devel at uni-koeln.de
> Subject: Re: FAIwiki Copyrights
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 15:42:43 -0500
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:29:20PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:54PM +0200, Henning Sprang wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 16:24 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> >  <snip/>
> > > > 
> > > > The wiki is at http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > IANAL & AFAIK there are about five versions of the Creative Commons License.
> > > > Some of them are very restricting. e.g. "don't modify my beautiful
> > > > painting". But a wiki is about allow others to modify ( improve it )
> > > 
> > > "creative commons attribution 2.5" is one of these, that one that allows
> > > absolute freedom apart from the original author must be mentioned. Sorry
> > > for not posting a link to it and to the faiwiki copyright page, here
> > > they go:
> > > 
> > > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
> > > 
> > > http://faiwiki.informatik.uni-koeln.de/index.php/FAIWiki:Copyrights
> > 
> > | Attribution 2.5
> > | 
> > | You are free:
> > | 
> > |     * to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
> > |     * to make derivative works
> > |     * to make commercial use of the work
> > | 
> > | Under the following conditions:
> > | by	
> > | Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
> > | author or licensor.
> > | 
> > |     * For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the
> > |     * license terms of this work.
> > |     * Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from
> > |     * the copyright holder.
> > | 
> > | Your fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.
> > | 
> > 
> > Sounds reasonable to me.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Geert Stappers
> > 
> 
> I was sitting arround, concidering placing some content in the wiki, when i started concidering licensing issues, reguarding code in the wiki.
> 
> as we have a 'user classes' and 'user scripts' section, i think its quite relevent.
> 
> If i cut-and paste sections of code out of my /usr/local/share/fai directory, whats the licecnse?
> I mean, i can always release relevant code elsewhere under the GPL, nothing stops me from doing it, however...
> 
> say joe_user cuts-and-pastes in some interesting code. the CCL requires atribution, the GPL does not.
> does this have the effect that we cannot use this code in FAI itsself?
> and what about my /usr/local/share/fai code? its mostly a derivitive of the examples given. am i breaking the GPL by pasting in my script to the website?
> 
> these questions disturb me. I now let them disturb everyone else. ;)
> 
> Julia Longtin <risc at volumehost.com>
> 
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