I'm considering the idea[1] of taking (part of) this canonical page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions ... and maintaining it downstream at, e.g.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_software_contributions On the face of it, the source content is the same license as Wikipedia. Maintaining the Wikipedia page as a downstream is as simple as copy + paste, then watch the canonical page and update the downstream page as appropriate. But there is an additional clause in contributing content to Wikipedia, that it be contributed under the GFDL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright#Contributors.27_rights_and_obligations If you contribute text directly to Wikipedia, you thereby license it to the public for reuse under CC-BY-SA and GFDL (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts). If I were the copyright holder for the Fedora content in question, I would just accept that. However, the [[Red Hat contributions]] page on the Fedora wiki is definitely an aggregate work.[2] Interestingly, it appears the vast majority of the contributions are from Red Hat employees. If copyright holder permission is required or preferred, we could obtain it and put a notice on the page that future contributions are going to be relicensed at Wikipedia under ... the GFDL specifically? Yeah, specifics make more sense. How to handle all this? Thanks - Karsten [1] Not being sure about the cultural stance of being @redhat.com and doing this, I've requested help on the subject here: http://iquaid.org/2009/12/14/how-can-we-share-some-love-about-red-hat-with-wikipedia [2] Full history for this page on this wiki: https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Red_Hat_contributions&limit=500&action=history There is a copyright history that goes back to the previous wiki. We can obtain that list, if needed. :) -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://quaid.fedorapeople.org gpg: AD0E0C41
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