[arch-general] Licensing of Arch Wiki content

[Ananda Samaddar]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:17:38 -0400
Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu 17 Jun 2010 21:42 +0100, 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.
> 
> I don't think anyone would sue you for it.
> 

Fair enough, the Arch Wiki states though that all content is under
GFDL1.2 in the page footer.  Would it be possible to change this to
also allow Creative Commons?  In other words officially endorse it in
the Arch Wiki.

Ananda
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