[arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

Linas linas_fi at ymail.com
Thu Jun 17 17:19:09 EDT 2010


Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> I notice it's all under GFDL 1.2.  I'm wanting to use a Gentoo doc
> for the Arch Security stuff but it's under a CC-SA attribution license
> which is incompatible with GFDL. Would it be possible to allow Wiki
> content under a CC licenses? I can't see it being too controversial a
> choice, as in CC licenses are now widely accepted.  Even the venerable
> RMS uses CC licenses for his personal stuff as does a lot of the
> FSF/GNU stuff.
>
> Ananda
>   

I assume this ask to have GFDL & CC-BY-SA content coexist at the wiki. The
existing content can only be relicensed by its authors. The GFDL 1.3
gateway
expired on August 1, 2009.

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