[CentOS-docs] Wiki license, again

Fri Mar 2 01:55:37 UTC 2007
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

Ralph,

thanks for bringing this up, i think we need to resolve this and resolve 
it quickly.

Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> and this time with a decision, please.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just had a talk with someone on IRC who wanted to reuse stuff from
> <http://wiki.centos.org/MarketingMaterial> and asked me about the
> licensing of content on there.
> 
> Which made me think "Well, let us restart this discussion again". We
> *do* need a license for content on the wiki. The three licenses we're
> favouring (well, sort of) are:
> 
> The GNU Free Documentation License
> CreativeCommons with attribution
> Open Documentation License
> 

CC with Attribution has my vote, however i am not a lawyer

Also, while we are here at this topic, we need to finalise and put in 
place some means for Authors on the wiki to agree to using this license 
for all their stuff that goes onto the wiki.


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