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Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:19:03 +0100
Message-Id: <CHABHI8LOV8K.1IM592B6SFKMD@taiga>
To: "Kevin Daudt" <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>, "Wolf" <wolf@wolfsden.cz>
Cc: <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>
Subject: Re: Please reply to this email to re-license your prior Alpine wiki
 contributions
From: "Drew DeVault" <sir@cmpwn.com>
References: <CH58XEZPYFYT.1MV854Y4P2Q2O@taiga>
 <20220119234611.h2ozbfcc6e7lffu3@mail.wolfsden.cz> <Yej2uwpTbafLhqGh@alpha>
In-Reply-To: <Yej2uwpTbafLhqGh@alpha>

I think that it makes sense to make things more clear on the wiki. I
asked for an update on IRC but I don't think anyone has had time to make
the appropriate changes.

We, as such, don't need to make the effort to track which pages are
retroactively re-licensed and which are not. However, should someone
else *want* to reuse the content from a page, then they can ascertain
the copyright status of that page fairly easily on their own.

I would suggest that the red banner on the main page reads as follows:

> Please note as of 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 UTC all new wiki pages are
> licensed as CC-BY-SA-4.0.
>
> Existing pages retain the old license except where their authors have
> agreed to retroactively change the license of their content to
> CC-BY-SA-4.0 by acknowledging the change in [this mailing list thread].
>=20
> See https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Privacy_policy for
> more details.

The Privacy Policy page should also change this:

> All content is copyrighted by the original authors. It may not be
> republished in any form without prior permission.

To this:

> All content is copyrighted by the original authors. Some authors have
> agreed to re-license their contributions under [CC-BY-SA-4.0] by
> acknowledging the change in [this mailing list thread]. To ascertain
> the copyright status of any particular page, a manual review of the
> history paired with the copyright statements on the mailing list is
> necessary.
>
> To agree to re-license your existing contributions, send a reply to
> [the thread] or a new email to ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
> with the following content:
>
> [snip]

Then the section on re-licensing your contributions under the heading
"Pages created after" should be removed. All future contributions are
CC-BY-SA without requiring anyone's explicit agreement, so the mailing
list thread and relicensing statement are only relevant to the "before"
header.