[Bf-docboard] Copyright issues on new pages

[Joe Eagar]

Stefano Selleri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is a long time since my last post, sorry, but I had a lot of RW 
> work and other family business (P.S. daugther was born June 15 :) )
Congrats!!!!!!!
!!!!
>
> I think this point don't need to be clarified because Oliver already 
> pointed out.
>
> Since the beginning of the wiki it was stated clearly that all text 
> should be submitted under the Open Content license. Period.
No, this is not true.  No where in the editing process is the Open 
Content license so much as linked to.  There is no point where a user is 
forced to agree to accept that license.  There *is* a link to a 
copyright page (Project:Copyright). . .but it's not written.  The only 
"license" would be the paragraph:

Please note that all contributions to BlenderWiki may be edited, 
altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your 
writing to be edited mercilessly, then don't submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it 
from a public domain or similar free resource (see Project:Copyrights 
<http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php?title=BlenderWiki:Copyrights&action=edit> 
for details"

That, obviously, is far from Open Content, and I'm sure no publisher 
would accept it.
>
> Copyrighted material CAN be submitted *only* if the copyright owner 
> elects to do so AND change the license to The Open Content one...
http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/Licenses does have a list of 
various licenses that you *can* use. However, saying "Blender 
Documentation is released under the Open Content License 
<http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml>." is hardly clear.  What 
documentation?  Is that tutorial on my geocities site forced to be Open 
Content?  And that page is only linked to from the Main Page and the 
About page, so it's hardly in a prominent place.

Joe