[OpenID board] [legal] openid.net and wiki.openid.net copyright notice.

[David Recordon]

Given http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7876 it seems like CC-BY-SA is what the Wikimedia Foundation is working on moving to from the GFDL. 

As an aside, how are we just relicensing exisiting content that was contributed under no license? 

--David 

----- "Chris Messina" <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Nat Sakimura < sakimura at gmail.com > wrote: 
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> I see no problem in placing a CC license on the site and the wiki, though considering many people have contributed to the wiki I doubt we can just place a CC license on the existing content. I don't see a problem in placing a CC license on the site content given that we can contact the small group of people who wrote it and ask for their permission. 

> The original Wiki site had GFDL. People should have agreed to GFDL when they posted. 
> The current one has not such provision, and that is a problem. 

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I've added the GFDL license to the new wiki's sidebar. We can change it later if we need to. 

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We can also add a page describing the licensing terms for contributions to the wiki. Currently it does not seem like we'll be able to add a licensing checkbox for new members to agree to. 

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> As to which CC license we should pick, I would promote 
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> CC BY-SA-NC 
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> If they are publishing a book by reprinting wiki for profit, we should be able to collect some money to help the community. Any thought? 
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> That seems unlikely (publishing a book of the wiki for profit). It's conceivable, but unlikely. 

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I think CC BY-SA would be sufficient -- then at least whatever derivative works are created would need to be shared under the same license. 

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Chris 

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