[OSGeo-Board] Copyright

[Markus Neteler]

On 6/2/06, Arnulf Christl <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de> wrote:
> 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.

Arnulf, all,

I am not familiar with Mediawiki installation, but I assume
that only a Sysop can make such global change. In general,
I would appreciate to make the copyright statements identical
(main site/wiki) to avoid confusion - that's sort of "branding", too.

thanks,
Markus