use of website material (was: Maps from FreeCiv)

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:03:32AM +0100, Christian Knoke wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:43:23AM +0100, Wawrzyniec Niewodniczanski wrote:
> > 
> > One more question. About text. 
> > Can we translate texts from www.freeciv.org, and add to our website? 
> > Can we use english text too? 
> 
> I see no problem here, as long as you keep the name of the original author/
> translator intact. If there is no author mentioned or known, it may be a
> good idea to include a "copyright (c) (year) The Freeciv Team" notice.

In a discussion a while ago, I had to conclude that legally speaking
there is no such thing as the Freeciv team.  The actual authors hold
the copyright individually.

We haven't put a license on the website yet.  I'd like to put it
under the FDL.  What do the other authors think?

-- 
Reinier