[arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

[Desmond Cox]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Ananda Samaddar <ananda at samaddar.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:53:04 -0400
> Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed 30 Jun 2010 00:15 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
>> > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:56:39 -0500
>> > Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I was also waiting for someone more knowledgeable with regards to
>> > > the wiki.
>> > >
>> > > If it's my say-so you want, I don't see a problem with adding
>> > > *additional* content under CC. But switching all *existing*
>> > > content to CC might be a problem.
>> >
>> > Not really, I'm wanting to adapt a Gentoo document to Arch's needs.
>> > This document is CC by SA attribution licensed.  The whole Wiki
>> > article would have to be under the same license and not the GFDL.
>> > The CC and GFDL licenses are not compatible. Would it be ok to add
>> > a footer paragraph to the Wiki article stating that the WHOLE
>> > article is CC licensed and to disregard the GFDL footer at the
>> > bottom? This would only be for new Wiki articles. I am not
>> > proposing re-licensing existing Wiki articles.
>>
>> Just do it.
>>
>
> OK I will do.  Anyone who objects to this should say so now.
>
> Ananda
>

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ArchWiki:General_disclaimer states:

All text is under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
*unless otherwise stated within the document.*

-- Des