changing content licenses (OPL => CC BY SA)

Eric Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Thu Jun 25 22:54:18 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 18:48 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 06/25/2009 03:22 PM, Karsten Wade wrote:
> > When we went from GFDL to OPL we specifically had to ask everyone
> > because none of the content works were under the Fedora CLA.  The
> > stated reasoning at the time iirc was, we wouldn't have to do this
> > check with everyone again if we had to relicense because we had the
> > CLA.
> 
> I think the important distinction that I missed was that I thought you
> were only referring to the reference documentation in the separate files
> (e.g. Release Guide), where there are well defined lists of the
> contributors. For the wiki, that task is far too major and we would
> definitely want to leverage the CLA to relicense that content.
> 

There is still a problem, though.  Most, if not all, of our guides start
on the wiki.  I know a lot of information that went into the Security
Guide came from the wiki and thus from various developers.

> 
> ~spot
> 

Eric
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