Re: lilypond.org copyright and wiki

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

John Mandereau wrote:
> Graham Percival wrote:
>
> > On 7-Sep-05, at 9:15 AM, John Mandereau wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I don't mind dual-licensing this page, but the 2nd license has to be
> > > compatible with the first one (CC-NC/SA), which is certainly not the
> > > case of the GNU FDL, which allows a commercial usage.
> >
> > By "the 2nd license has to be compatible", do you mean "I (John
> > Mandereau) insist on doing this", or "legally speaking, the 2nd license
> > has to be compatible..." ?
> >
> > If it's the first, then fine; that is completely within your rights.  
> > If the second,
> > then you are mistaken.  _I_ cannot take the existing page and relicense
> > it, since I don't own the copyright to it (as you contributed some 
> > material).
> > But if both of us (and any other contributors) decide to dual-license 
> > that
> > material under the CC-NC/SA and GNU FDL... or even a traditional
> > commercial copyright license... then we are completely able to do that.
>
> I mean "legally speaking, ...". Why would you like to relicense this
> page? Do you want to include it in the documentation??? If not, I see no
> good reason to relicense it under the FDL.

I don't get it. Isn't it easier that we sort out any problems when they 
actually appear? It seems a waste of brainpower to do anything now. When 
the time is there, we can always ask permission of {us,wiki 
contributors} to grant various permissions.

> Do the webmasters wish I submit them a patch for adding links to the
> wiki? Of course, I won't do it until the wiki is ready.

yes please.


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