[Bf-docboard] Copyright issues on new pages

[Stefano Selleri]

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 :) )

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.

Copyrighted material CAN be submitted *only* if the copyright owner 
elects to do so AND change the license to The Open Content one...

Stefano


Olivier Saraja ha scritto:
> 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.
>>     
>
>
>   

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ing. Stefano SELLERI - DET - Univ. of Florence - Via Lombroso 6/17
50134 - Firenze. T. +39-055-4796751. F. +39-055-4796767
------------------------------------------------------------------------