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List:       kde-policies
Subject:    Re: Policy for contributions to www.kde.org
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2003-01-31 2:49:51
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On Thursday January 30, 2003 03:32, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I also do not think the one-license model is workable.  We already have
> enough of a hard time getting people to improve kde.org, forcing a
> religion on them is not the way to improve that.  OTOH a guidlines of
> acceptable licenses would be a good approach.

KDE Documentation seems pretty uniform around the GNU FDL.  Why can't the 
web page use that?

Given that very little on www.kde.org has a license currently, there is no 
evidence that www.kde.org contributors feel *that* strongly about the 
licensing.

> I also would prefer that we not force that the text be modifiable. 
> E.g., the GNU Public License (the license itself) is not modifiable, yet
> I do not think we want to ban it from kde.org.  There are other things
> like that - think for example of the KDE eV statutes, those cannot just
> be changed by anyone.  The examples of corporate logos have also been
> mentioned.  Another one I have personal experience with is the press
> releases - I do not think people providing quotes for example will ever
> agree that you can change them to say whatever you want.

But we should have the right to fix markup, to reorganize the site layout, 
to remove or update obsolete pages, and to distribute to users and mirrors 
(who are then given the right to re-distribute), shouldn't we?  *Some* 
minimum license is needed.

> I also do not think that any "automatic" license scheme is enforceable. 
> I think par. b/c of the abuse by media conglomerates it now takes some
> rather informed consent to give up or license your copyrights.  Good
> thing in general, whether it is good for KDE or not is another question
> . . . .

This would be very nice to make consistent, after that earlier discusson of 
People of KDE.

> How to resolve all these issues is difficult and explains why currently
> the licensing is not as clear as one would hope.

No, it may not be clear now, but it needs to be made clear for the future.  
- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil@qualityassistant.com
"Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and insidious that a
state bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not allow
them in any public sphere." -- Thurgood Marshall
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