Re: Consider adding license information to freedesktop.org wiki contents?
Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 13, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:> > This isn't how copyright works, sorry. Thanks, I was aware of this. No, it doesn't strictly adhere to 'how copyright works', but realistically, people who contribute to a freely available wiki about open source software are not going to sue you for putting an open source license on it. It's not even clear what they'd sue for: you can't lose revenue on wiki content that is already accessible at zero cost. As I said, this is something I have seen projects do. The Ubuntu wiki underwent relicensing in 2011, for instance, with the wording in an email: "In the absence of a substantial number of objections, this change will be made to the Ubuntu wiki after approximately one month." Thomas _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg