Re: [piecepack] Happy New Year! (Wiki README)

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:19:34PM -0800, Mark A. Biggar wrote
about the Piecepack Wiki:

> Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> 
> > There is one other potential change I would like to talk to users of
> > the wiki about.  With the current version of MoinMoin, it is possible
> > to display something like the following text when a user is editing a
> > page:
> > 
> >   By hitting Save Changes you put your changes under the
> >   GnuFreeDocumentationLicense. If you don't want that, hit Cancel to
> >   cancel your changes.

[snip]

> > In other words, users "own" the copyright to their own text and
> > images, but they make it freely available to the community.  This is a
> > standard "free" license that is used widely, not least for most
> > piecepack games.  I would like to add this feature to the Piecepack
> > Wiki, but I don't want to do so until there has been a discussion of
> > the issue.  I will give users on this list until 1 February 2004 to
> > ask questions, give opinions, and raise objections.  If there are no
> > serious objections by 1 February, I will implement this feature on the
> > wiki.  I hope there are no serious objections; in my opinion, it is
> > important to have a license like this for the data on the wiki because
> > of the freedom-of-information ethic that prevails in the piecepack
> > community, not to mention the wider community of wiki users.
> 
> I have no problems with this and would also have no problems with
> placing a notice like the above directly on the FrontPage with a link
> to a more detailed license page.  If someone really really wants to
> license something differently, they can always put it on a webpage
> elsewhere and link to it from the wiki and so keep control.  We also
> might want to put something on the new user registration page reminding
> new users about the above policy.

Thank you, Mark; that is an excellent point.  Since I upgraded all the
wikis on Ludism.org at the same time, we are having a similar
discussion on the seattle-cosmic mailing list.  I hope you don't mind
my CC'ing this to that list.

In general, if a wiki user must create a non-GFDL'ed page off the wiki
for some reason (such as wanting to upload some text released under
different licensing conditions), I will consider making it available
elsewhere on Ludism.org, assuming we agree to use the GFDL in the
first place.

Ron

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