[IMC-Docs] Licenses - again - proposal for consensus

[kwadronaut at autistici.org]

Hi,

There was a discussion from august 2005 till some months later about adapting
the copyright license on docs. Currently the content copyrights are retained by
the authors but nothing is specified about reusing content elsewhere. Something
which i consider necessary as an indymedia-project.

Basically the outcome of the earlier debate was:
by(attribution)-nc(non-commercial)-sa(share alike) or by-sa or public domain.

Can we retry to come to some consensus before June 1?

I think i would prefer a by-nc-sa license. I think it's more in the spirit of
Indymedia to specify the non-commercial part. If someone wants to reuse an
article they can, if they want to try to become rich with it, they have to ask
the authors.

Also: the software is gnu-licensed, does that limit the possible licenses for
the content too?

see:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcLegal#Copyright_Copyleft_Issues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing

And change it here:
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/TWiki/TWikiPreferences

There was today also a short discussion about it on irc, maybe it's good if
those people repeat their opinions on the list too.

Kwadronaut