On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:28:54 -0800 Luis Villa <luis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > 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 you want to import text that you have found elsewhere or that you > have co-authored with others, you can only do so if it is available > under terms that are compatible with the CC-BY-SA license. ***You do > not need to ensure or guarantee that the imported text is available > under the GNU Free Documentation License, unless you are its sole > author.***" > > ***emphasis mine > > That's the second paragraph of your own link... given that the content > is already CC-BY-SA, it should just be importable straight into > wikipedia (doesn't need to be GFDL), unless I'm missing something? > > Or to put it more clearly: > * it is my understanding that all content in the fedora wiki is > CC-BY-SA > * it is my understanding that wikipedia can accept all CC-BY-SA > content. (GFDL is no longer required.) > > therefore: > * it is my understanding that all content in the fedora wiki can be > exported over to wikipedia. > > Quite possibly I'm wrong on all of these; it is late and I am tired :) I think Luis is correct, but in any event, to the extent that Red Hat is the CC-BY-SA licensor here (by virtue of the Fedora CLA, and/or of the contributions by Red Hat employees qua Red Hat employees), and unless there are obligations to other licensors/copyright holders that would prevent this (which seems not to be the case here), and unless non-Red-Hat contributors do not object as to their copyrightable contributions, such content is also available under the much-maligned GFDL. That can be regarded as a general policy. - RF -- Richard E. Fontana Open Source Licensing and Patent Counsel Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
