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From: tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 19:08:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abccjvvn.fsf@blackbart.sedgenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87iqr1qnni.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>
> As we don't have copyright assignments for the content on EmacsWiki,
> we cannot do this.  Does EmacsWiki have a reliable history mechanism
> that allows to find out who has done a change?
>

The wiki is licensed under GPL 2, according to the footer on each page.
This being the case, what's to stop anyone from lifting content for
inclusion in other documents with compatible licenses?

If such activity actually requires individual contributors actively
assigning copyright, then the footer is wrong and needs to be corrected.

Personally, I have always assumed that material I provide on any wiki is
subject to a Free license. Wikipedia is GFDL, and they've never
requested a copyright assignment from me. If that's not the case for the
EmacsWiki it should be stated clearly somewhere.

Cheers,

Tyler

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-06 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20 10:54 Emacs Wiki Revision History Volkan YAZICI
2008-10-20 12:30 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-20 15:03 ` Drew Adams
2008-10-20 17:58 ` Xah
2008-10-21  8:04   ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-21 12:04     ` ack
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1709.1224598815.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 18:55       ` Xah
2008-10-22  9:26         ` Paul R
2008-10-22 22:45           ` Bastien
2008-10-23  8:25             ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1889.1224757773.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:10               ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23  8:25           ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]           ` <mailman.1856.1224715571.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:07             ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 14:35               ` Bastien
     [not found]               ` <mailman.1911.1224772552.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 22:06                 ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 22:53                   ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-24  2:54                   ` Bastien
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.1968.1224816864.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 10:15                     ` Alex Schroeder
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1777.1224667634.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 11:00           ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-23 20:43             ` Xah
2008-10-23 22:47               ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-24  8:31                 ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness (was: Emacs Wiki Revision History) Paul R
2008-11-06 20:22                   ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.3016.1226004497.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-07 14:27                     ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.1985.1224837085.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 10:14                   ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness (was: Emacs Wiki Revision History) Alex Schroeder
2008-10-24 11:15                     ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Paul R
2008-10-24 18:21                       ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-26 21:40                         ` Paul R
2008-10-26 21:54                           ` Lennart Borgman
2008-10-30 23:25                             ` Xavier Maillard
2008-10-30 23:25                           ` Xavier Maillard
2008-11-04 18:05                             ` Alex
     [not found]                             ` <mailman.2882.1225821941.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-04 21:10                               ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-06  8:11                                 ` Reiner Steib
2008-11-06  8:48                                   ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-06 20:29                                     ` Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs (was: Emacs, oldsters, newbiness) Reiner Steib
2008-11-06 21:24                                       ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-06 22:14                                         ` Including content from EmacsWiki in Emacs Reiner Steib
2008-11-06 23:11                                           ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]                                           ` <mailman.3026.1226017071.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-08 19:00                                             ` Rupert Swarbrick
2008-11-07 14:28                                       ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-11-06 23:08                                   ` tyler [this message]
2008-11-07  7:32                                     ` Emacs, oldsters, newbiness Paul R
2008-11-07 13:23                                       ` tyler
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1662.1224576628.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-21 18:34     ` Emacs Wiki Revision History Xah
2008-10-21 19:01       ` Xah
2008-10-23 11:05         ` Alex Schroeder
2008-10-22  0:25   ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found] ` <mailman.1578.1224505841.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 14:13   ` Alex Schroeder

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