Re: lilypond.org copyright and wiki

[John Mandereau]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On 7-Sep-05, at 9:15 AM, John Mandereau wrote:
> 
> > I don't mind dual-licensing this page, but the 2nd license has to be
> > compatible with the first one (CC-NC/SA), which is certainly not the
> > case of the GNU FDL, which allows a commercial usage.
> 
> By "the 2nd license has to be compatible", do you mean "I (John
> Mandereau) insist on doing this", or "legally speaking, the 2nd license
> has to be compatible..." ?
> 
> If it's the first, then fine; that is completely within your rights.  
> If the second,
> then you are mistaken.  _I_ cannot take the existing page and relicense
> it, since I don't own the copyright to it (as you contributed some 
> material).
> But if both of us (and any other contributors) decide to dual-license 
> that
> material under the CC-NC/SA and GNU FDL... or even a traditional
> commercial copyright license... then we are completely able to do that.
> 
I mean "legally speaking, ...". Why would you like to relicense this
page? Do you want to include it in the documentation??? If not, I see no
good reason to relicense it under the FDL.


> > Anyway, why dual-licensing the Mailing lists How To if lilypond.org
> > pages are not under a specific license? If they were under the FDL or a
> > CC license, it should be mentioned explicitly, so I conclude that
> > lilypond.org pages are fully copyrighted by the webmasters, aren't 
> > they?
> 
> You're right; if the copyright license is not explicitly stated, then 
> it's
> assumed to be "fully copyrighted".  I don't think this has been an issue
> in the past, but we probably should clarify that.
> 
Maybe.

> > It's possible that my request for adding a link and announce in the 
> > news
> > on lilypond.org is premature, because the wiki is still quite immature.
> 
> I would advise that we update the wiki link in the documentation 
> section,
> but don't advertise it in the news yet.
I think so.

Do the webmasters wish I submit them a patch for adding links to the
wiki? Of course, I won't do it until the wiki is ready.

-- 
John Mandereau <address@hidden>