Received: from vps892.directvps.nl (ikke.info [178.21.113.177]) by nld3-dev1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5F64D781012 for <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Thu, 20 Jan 2022 05:44:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vps892.directvps.nl (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 5CB19440102; Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:44:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:44:27 +0100 From: Kevin Daudt To: Wolf Cc: Drew DeVault , ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: Please reply to this email to re-license your prior Alpine wiki contributions Message-ID: References: <20220119234611.h2ozbfcc6e7lffu3@mail.wolfsden.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220119234611.h2ozbfcc6e7lffu3@mail.wolfsden.cz> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:46:11AM +0100, Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > On 2022-01-14 09:15:26 +0100, Drew DeVault wrote: > > [..] > > Also, one question. Wiki now shows this header: > > Please note as of 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 UTC all new wiki pages are > licensed as CC-BY-SA-4.0. > > See https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux:Privacy_policy for > more details. > > Existing pages retain the old license. > > Is that accurate? Is the licensing done on page-level instead of on > contribution-level? At least from this email I've got different > impression. > > W. We cannot retro-actively relicense the existing content ourself, so for a policy, it's easiest to say that only new pages will use the new license, while old pages keep the old. A page usually has content from multiple authors, and only when all authors agreed to relicense their content, could we consider that page to have the new license, but we don't want to put in the work to track that at this moment. Later we will decide what to do with the existing wiki content, but starting this relicensing project now gives people time to respond and will make it easier in the future. > > -- > There are only two hard things in Computer Science: > cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.