From kde-www Thu Jan 30 14:45:09 2003 From: Jason Bainbridge Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:45:09 +0000 To: kde-www Subject: Re: Policy for contributions to www.kde.org X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-www&m=104393760502010 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:04, Waldo Bastian wrote: > 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. I think probably the best way to proceed given that we can control pretty tightly who has write access to kde-www that all documents, scripts and images are licensed under the GPL unless explicitly stated otherwise and then we would have a list of acceptable licenses that could be used instead. I can't see it being terriblly feasible that we include a license statement in each and every file that is committed, especially as it means it couldn't just be mentioned in the header of every page it would have to mentioned in every single page. So I forsee that the approval process for a CVS account with write access to kde-www, would involve the user agreeing that all commits performed by themselves would fall under the GPL license unless explicitly stated otherwise and then it would have to be something like a BSD style license or the FDL. Thoughts? Regards, Jason -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+OTp9+8siRMuKcRwRAt9WAJ49I0JKkqEGrrTObVAgAT/lXed8ewCgl/5W Vk+mL6DJvKagHsuWUbXPs7w= =UycT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-www mailing list kde-www@mail.kde.org http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-www