[Bf-docboard] Copyright issues on new pages

[Olivier Saraja]

Here are my non relevant 2 cents on the topic ;)

I think it should be stated that every submission to the wiki should be
Open Content, or not be submitted at all.

As a side note, Joe Eagar is right when he thinks some headaches may arise
if the future editor of a future blender book has to contact each
individual author whose licensing is unclear.

Moreover (and according to my point of view, it's the most important
thing), when put into the wiki, each text will possibly be corrected,
enhanced by others. Licensed texts couldn't be (or only partially be,
depending on the licensing), and this is something very negative, as whole
chapters would need to be rewritten from scratch, which is very
counter-productive.

Because of this, I really think the foundation should stress that any
submission to the documentation should be fully Open Content. Surely,
submitters become slightly anonymous, but it's not really a burden if ones
loves Blender and really wants to contribute.

Cheers!

Joe Eagar a dit :
> Um.  I must not being clear here.  The reason why I worry is that
> someday there may be another print of the manual, and it'd be terrible
> if a bunch of wiki stuff had to be thrown out because the authors
> couldn't be found and they didn't explicitly put their work under Open
> Content.
>
> I don't worry about the *wiki* having copyright problems, I worry about
> the headaches that might arise if the manual has no clear licensing *and
> the BF wants to print another edition of it*.  As I understand it, no
> publisher will print something that has parts with unclear licensing.


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