[Mageia-dev] Fortune Cookies Collections Policy

[nicolas vigier]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to prepare Mageia packages for more UNIX fortune cookies'
> collections (see the fortune-mod program and
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ ), but I'm wondering when it is
> acceptable to package them and when it wouldn't be, given that fortune files
> often contain texts and quotes from heterogeneous sources, and licensed under
> various licences (including "All-Rights-Reserved" ones).
> 
> For example, can I package the collection here -
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ - which is by me and which its 
> blanket licence is the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence
> (CC-by-sa), but which contains text by many authors and under many licences?

I think it is almost the same as wikiquote :
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights

Most countries have laws that allows publishing short quotes of
copyrighed work. So if done within limits, it should be ok.

Maybe we can use the same limits as wikiquote :
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Limits_on_quotations