From kde-policies Thu Jan 30 13:04:16 2003 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:04:16 +0000 To: kde-policies Subject: Re: Policy for contributions to www.kde.org X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-policies&m=104393201727154 On Thursday 30 January 2003 13:16, Harri Porten wrote: > But won't it be the simplest to state at *one* places what kind of license > (or licences) the whole content of www.kde.org falls under and make that > a policy for authors ? Attributing this to e.g. every image sounds like a > lot of work. After all Dirk's worry wasn't about the licence situation of > the *user* (who downloads content) but the community of *authors* (i.e. > KDE). If a free license is part of CVS policy it would have to be accepted > by everybody checking in anything. I don't think such "implied" licenses work very well. I have seen code in KDE CVS without a license header that suddenly got stamped with a mickey-mouse BSD-ish license by its author. (Grep for "Alex Z") Apart from that I think it creates the impression that all files are indeed under a certain license even while in fact the actual copyright holder never gave his/her permission for that. Think of the company logos that are in CVS and that are most likely "All rights reserved". That said, I agree with you that having only one acceptable license would the simplest. It's just that I think that every file should state its license if you actually want to be able to claim rights based on that license. Cheers, Waldo -- bastian@kde.org -=|[ SuSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian@suse.com _______________________________________________ Kde-policies mailing list Kde-policies@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-policies