On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 17:32 +0200, Zach Oglesby wrote: > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:24:13AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > > On 06/25/2009 08:37 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:58 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > >> The Docs Team has recently reached consensus to change licenses that > > >> cover the various full-size guides the team works on, such as the > > >> Release Notes and the Installation Guide. Currently the works are > > >> under the OPL 1.0, and the intention is to switch to the CC BY SA 3.0. > > > > > > I agree that CC is a much better choice than OPL. > > > > > > How do we make this relicensing work? I.e., if contributor X agreed that > > > their content could be used under the OPL, how is it that we can just > > > take that content and distribute it under a different license? I don't > > > remember if the CLA has any wording on this. (Obviously the intention of > > > the licenses is very similar, but nonetheless it seems like a murky > > > situation. We did have someone withdraw from Fedora and take their toys > > > with them when we last made a license change on the the wiki, IIRC). > > > > Well, basically, we really should ask the contributors to consent to the > > relicensing, and get their "written" permission in email. Technically, > > these contributions were made under the terms of the CLA, and unless > > those folks explicitly stated that their contributions were under the > > OPL, Fedora is technically able to relicense those contributions however > > we desire. > > > > I say "technically" a lot there, because I do not want to leverage that. > > I think the clear intent of contributors contributing to an OPL licensed > > document is that their contributions are under OPL terms. In fact, I > > want to remove that loophole in the next revision of the Fedora CLA. > > > > So, we should just go ahead and get permission from all the contributors > > (writers and translators) to relicense their works, and if anyone does > > not give permission, we should remove/replace their contribution. > > > > ~spot > > That is a large task, Im not sure an email chain would be the best way to handel that, however I am not sure what is. Could we setup a vote and give access to all those in the groups of Docs, translators, etc and if we get any no votes we request them send a message to someone or a group or a list and explain why they don't want to change? I don't know how to handle contacting everyone that has submitted to the wiki if we are going to change licenses there. Thoughts? -- Thanks, Eric Christensen Fedora Docs Project Lead Fedora Talk: 5102043 Phone: 919-424-0063 x 5102043 E-Mail: sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SIP: sparks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx IRC: Sparks on freenode.net GPG Fingerprint: CA02 4ACA EB6C 1A76 F0D6 1127 7D04 D240 BD0C 14C1
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