The Fedora Foundation has decided that all Fedora documentation, including the fedoraproject.org wiki, will be licensed under the terms of the Open Publication License 1.0[1] without options. Unfortunately, the Fedora Project does not have copyright privileges over the wiki's existing content. Since we have allowed anyone to edit the wiki without any sort of licensing or copyright assignment, we cannot cover the existing content without the agreement of each contributor. To solve this issue, we have come up with a plan[2]. Our plan will require that all contributors complete the CLA in the Fedora Account System[3] before joining the EditGroup. In order to facilitate our new changes, the EditGroup will be frozen effective immediately and through the weekend. Those of you who are in the EditGroup can continue to make edits during that time, but no new contributors are to be added to the EditGroup during the freeze. Everyone who is in the EditGroup but has not completed the CLA will be removed after this weekend. If you are currently in the EditGroup and have not completed the CLA, please take the time to do so now. This agreement will allow us to license your contributions under the OPL. If you have completed the CLA, but are removed after the weekend, contact someone in the revised EditGroup to add you again. All current EditGroup members who are removed will have their name added to a tracking page[4]. If your name is moved to that list, you will need to complete the CLA and remove yourself from the list to indicate that you agree to having your past contributions licensed under the OPL. DO NOT REMOVE OTHERS from this list. It will be monitored. After an undetermined waiting period, all contributions made by names still on this list will be removed from the wiki. If you would like to learn more about our licensing and other legal terms, visit the Legal page[5] on the wiki. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Licenses/OPL [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiLicenseTalk [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem [4] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnlicensedGroup [5] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ -- Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/
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