copyrights of wiki contents

[Karsten Wade]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:55 +0900, Yoshihiro Totaka wrote:
> Hi, I may be wrong to ask this question here (if so I apologise), but I 
> am wondering about the copyright of wiki contents. Wiki document is 
> getting more and more popular in fedora document, and I am wondering 
> whether I am allowed to modify(translate) some of the documents.
> 
> Can I assume those document similar to wikipedea's copyrights(GFDL)?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

Very good question.  I do not think you can make any assumptions about
the copyright of the fedoraproject.org contents.

I've posted this question to this page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues

with a link to this thread for on-list follow-up.  So far, this is the
best method to get legal issues resolved.

- Karsten
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