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

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 01:40, Benoit Audouard <baud123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the notification. Indeed that would be an issue.

The footer page license is the default of dokuwiki it seems. We just
didn't check this. And in no way are we ever going to use the NC
provision that is, at best, just unpracticable.

> - iirc conf/local.php according to http://www.dokuwiki.org/config:license
> (yep yet another 5 min changes /o\)

Fixed already.

> - 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')

Not critical, but yes, if you have a recipe for that...

> 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

We may set up a page in the next wiki stating the list of various
contributors to the previous wiki. But one has to raise his hand to do
that.

Romain