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A fascinating effort... good on ya! (all) |
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==Copyright Licence for this wiki.== |
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Who owns the copyright to material posted here? |
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Are all contributors required to hand over their copyrights to OLPC? |
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This would mean OLPC could commercialise the info and would not have to share it if they didn't want to. |
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Is it under the GFDL? |
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This is the license used by Wikipedia. If we have the same licence then it is easy to share stuff with them. |
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We could use the Creative Commons Wiki license (attribution/share alike). This is said to have some advantages over the GFDL. Wikipedia has a page discussing this. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multi-licensing]]. Then we couldn't accept Wikipedia contributions. |
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What is the OLPC policy on Intellectual Property? This needs to get sorted before we have a bunch of stuff here we can't use because we didn't get permission from the contributors. Once decided we lock the project in to that license forever because of the difficulty of getting permission from previous contributors for changed conditions. |
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Revision as of 10:30, 25 March 2006
Q: Where's the TOC (table of contents) or index of the site? (I can't find my way around...)
A: Try either One Laptop per Child or Special pages: All Pages for a start...
A fascinating effort... good on ya! (all)
(dharma -- March 18, 2006)
Copyright Licence for this wiki.
Who owns the copyright to material posted here?
Are all contributors required to hand over their copyrights to OLPC? This would mean OLPC could commercialise the info and would not have to share it if they didn't want to.
Is it under the GFDL? This is the license used by Wikipedia. If we have the same licence then it is easy to share stuff with them.
We could use the Creative Commons Wiki license (attribution/share alike). This is said to have some advantages over the GFDL. Wikipedia has a page discussing this. [[1]]. Then we couldn't accept Wikipedia contributions.
What is the OLPC policy on Intellectual Property? This needs to get sorted before we have a bunch of stuff here we can't use because we didn't get permission from the contributors. Once decided we lock the project in to that license forever because of the difficulty of getting permission from previous contributors for changed conditions.