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From: Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org>
To: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Cc: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>, ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Re-licensing the Alpine wiki
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 04:21:15AM -0600, Ariadne Conill wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2022, Drew DeVault wrote:
> 
> > Briefly discussed on IRC.
> > 
> > The Alpine wiki has a weird non-free non-license:
> > 
> > > All content is copyrighted by the original authors. It may not be
> > > republished in any form without prior permission.
> 
> I believe this is the default license MediaWiki installs when you do not
> choose a free license, rather than any intentional decision.
> 
> > https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Privacy_policy#Copyright
> > 
> > This should be corrected. I propose this procedure:
> > 
> > 1. From a given cut-over date, all wiki edits following that date use
> >   the GNU Free Documentation License[0].
> > 2. A page is established on which all existing contributors can
> >   voluntarily agree to retroactively relicense their contributions.
> > 
> > This will cause the wiki to become more freely licensed over time, and
> > gives us a means of establishing the licensing situation for any
> > particular page should someone want to reuse it. Perhaps in a couple of
> > years we can re-evaluate the situation and nag a few stragglers for a
> > reliensing statement, or rewrite the last few pages which are still
> > nonfree.
> 
> This seems like a reasonable plan.
> 
> > I picked the GNU FDL essentially arbitrarily to reduce bikeshedding. The
> > Arch Wiki uses it, so there's some precedent. We could use Creative
> > Commons if someone really cares about it. I expect that this will be a
> > relatively straightforward, uncontroversial change.
> 
> I think it would be better to use CC-BY-SA.  This would be aligned with the
> Alpine Handbook, which is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0[0].

+1 for CC-BY-SA

> 
> [0]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/docs/user-handbook/-/blob/master/LICENSE
> 
> Ariadne