Re: Relicensing wiki.mozilla.org to CC-BY-SA

On 11.05.2009 18:42 Uhr, Gervase Markham wrote:
> On 11/05/09 16:51, Axel Hecht wrote:
>> I'm sure OK with this, but reading through
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-faq.html, I'm not sure if all our
>> material on wikimo actually falls under those terms, or if it just
>> helps us to limit the impact of people that we had to ask now? I'm
>> slightly confused by the impact of the two dates mentioned.
>
> I'm pretty sure all material on wiki.mozilla.org is covered, but if
> someone thinks otherwise, they should say.
>
> There are three conditions:
>
>> 1) The work must be available under the terms of FDL 1.3, which provides
>> you with this permission. If the work was released under the terms of
>> “the GNU Free Documentation License, version 1.2 or (at your option)
>> any later version,” then it meets this criteria. *
>
> wiki.mozilla.org is available under "the GNU Free Documentation License
> (GFDL)": https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozillaWiki:About
> I can't immediately see a version number on the copyrights page, and the
> FDL says:
>
> "If the Document does not specify a version number of this License, you
> may choose any version ever published (not as a draft) by the Free
> Software Foundation."
>
>> 2) The work must not have any “Cover Texts” or “Invariant Sections.”
>> These are optional features in all versions of the FDL.
>
> wiki.mozilla.org does not use either of these features.
>
>> 3) If the work was originally published somewhere other than a public
>> wiki, it must have been added to a wiki (or some other kind of web
>> site where the general public could review and edit the materials)
>> before November 1, 2008.
>
> As far as I know, all wiki.mozilla.org content was originally published
> on a public wiki (wiki.mozilla.org itself) so this clause does not
> apply. And even if some was not, if it was added before November 1st
> 2008, we are OK anyway. We only have a problem if there's content on
> there which was originally published elsewhere and then was added to
> wiki.mozilla.org after November 1st 2008.
>
>> On an abstract level, GNU here reinforces my "ugh" on their "and
>> future versions of this license", as they're passing the license from
>> one group (GNU) to another group (CC) by the decision of a third
>> (MMC). And their rationale is more like "whatever".
>
> MMC?

Their term in the license to say wiki without saying wiki, though they 
say wiki at one point :-)

Thanks for the reply

Axel
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