[Bf-docboard] Copyright issues on new pages

[Joe Eagar]

[cross-posted from manual talk page]

Hi. For the new node editor pages I wrote for the reference section, I 
had to figure out how to deal with licensing issues. It would be nice if 
there was an official way for an author to explicitly put new pages 
under the manual's license. Myself, I added the following to the talk 
page of each page I wrote:


Copyright Notice (not really)

This document (Reference/Windows/Nodes/Composite_Nodes 
<http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference/Windows/Nodes/Composite_Nodes>) 
can be licensed under either a) the license of the official Blender 
Foundation version of the Blender User Manuel, or b) under the Open 
Content Licsense 
<http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/Licenses#Open_Content_License>. 
Which at the moment are one and the same.

This notice is to forstall potential copyright issues pertaining to 
printing the reference section. Since I don't believe printers will 
print a document with ambiguous licensing.


As you can see, it states that my pages are available for licensing 
under either whatever license the manual is using, or the Open Content 
License. This assumes that if the two ever differ, they will remain 
compatible, which seems a reasonable assumption to me.

The reason I worry about this, is that I think it's important that the 
manual's licensing remains clear for printing. It would be sad, if parts 
of the manual couldn't be printed because someone didn't license new 
pages then dropped off the face of the earth.

Of course, as far as I can tell, already-licensed pages that are edited 
or revised won't cause any problems, since they've already been licensed 
under Open Content.

Joe