Re: Some notes on the Wiki

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Steven Bosscher writes:
 > On Monday 11 July 2005 16:50, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
 > > Steven Bosscher wrote:
 > > > I guess that, apart from the legal discussion of whether this enough,
 > > > such a statement would not apply to existing content.  It was certainly
 > > > not my intention to sign over the various Wiki contributions I have
 > > > made to the FSF.
 > >
 > > This strikes me as shortsighted.
 > 
 > Call it what you will.  For me it is a matter of choice and freedom.
 > 
 > > If we're getting into a situation 
 > > where we can't freely move documentation from one place to another,
 > > we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
 > 
 > We already can't do that.  We can't move documentation from the manual
 > into the code, and vice versa, because of the GPL vs. GFDL issue.

Actually, that's not true because *we* (or to be accurate the FSF) own
the copyright on both.

 > It is that kind of thing that completely takes away any motivation
 > I might otherwise have to contribute to the manual.
 > 
 > And again, if you're going to require reviewing and copyright assignment
 > for wiki contributions, we might as well not have a wiki at all.

Good idea.

Andrew.