[OSGeo-Board] Copyright

[Arnulf Christl]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Arnulf Christl wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> we should add some text to this page:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGEO:Copyrights&action=edit
>> as it appears under each page before you save it. Anybody feel like 
>> it? Make it short and painless. I added it to the topic list to vote 
>> on next meeting.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Arnulf.
>>
>>
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> 
> Arnulf,
> 
> It seems the following message already appears in the wiki edit page:
> 
> Please note that all contributions to OSGEO are considered to be 
> released under the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 (see 
> Project:Copyrights for details). If you don't want your writing to be 
> edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here.
> You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it 
> from a public domain or similar free resource. DO NOT SUBMIT COPYRIGHTED 
> WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION!
> 
> Is that not sufficient?
> 
> It is a bit odd that we consider wiki contents to default to GNU FDL but 
> the
> web pages to Creative Commons.  That might be worth fixing up.
> 
> Best regards,

GNU FDL is the default of Mediawiki and nobody changed it. But this is 
also Wiki :-) go here and find out which System Pages apply to fixing up 
the oddity.

http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Special:Allmessages

Personally I wouldn't mind keeping the Wiki stuff under the FDL. Would 
be an interesting job for legal guys to find out what this means to the 
pages that we have developed in the Wiki and then copied to the web site.

The default copyright page just before hitting the save button does not 
have any text yet.

Arnulf.