[Mageia-webteam] license at the bottom of temporary wiki

[Benoit Audouard]

Hi,

You may not have seen my request of changing license of temporary wiki
 after the end of latest packagers meeting on 5th january (when shikamaru
identified that he may "migrate" some policies pages to temporary wiki).

So, maybe change the license at the bottom of http://mageia.org/wiki to
CC-by-sa instead of CC-by-NC-sa if things are inspired from mdv wiki (for
license compliancy),
the change is in a conf' file of dokuwiki
- iirc conf/local.php according to
http://www.dokuwiki.org/config:license(yep yet another 5 min changes
/o\)
- and BTW I'll look how to change donation link to
http://mageia.org/en/donate/ at the bottom too... (for the moment being,
seems it can be changed in the php page not in the conf')
I don't think it would be seen as a bad move as the current wiki mainly
holds content that we all approved to share (though we forgot to enforce a
license to begin with...).

furthermore, as the name implies, temporary wiki may not benefit from
"automatic" migration, so people may have to migrate manually the content
(losing the history of it), hence, better to have  no licensing issues with
destination (even if from the participants state of mind, it's not really
imho).
I see only 2 problems :
- attribution is usually lost (as was the case when vdanen moved from Twiki
to mediawiki in former time), that's not a problem for me as I understand we
do what we can, though adding a phrase like "derived from [original link]
under license CC-by-sa" at the bottom may do it, or to go farther "including
contribution from [list of contributers from history page]" to be more
royalist than the king, not compulsory imho , may _really__ be welcomed well
by some people though
- license (share alike) should not be overlooked or set aside, as it's
important for some people like me, as an incentive to contribute to libre
software (which NC is not)

Thanks for your involvement, I keep another mail about wiki requirements for
tomorrow^Wtoday :-) one thing at a time, even if it takes 5 mn each time.
@++
Ben' aka baud123
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