[wp-docs] Licensing

[Matt Mullenweg]

GFDL++

Cena Mayo wrote:

> Christian Balzer wrote:
> 
>> There are lots of useful pages in the wiki, but all of them have to be
>> revised and ported to the official website.
>>  
>>
> 
> I don't think the idea is to revise *all* the wiki pages and port them 
> over.  Some, by their nature, are better served by remaining on the wiki 
> where they can be updated and maintained more easily (such as the list 
> of hacks or CSS resources).
> 
>> And before you make anything out of them, we have to (I know I'm 
>> repeating
>> myself) come up with a license, I think.
>>  
>>
> Christian, we discussed this a bit in our private correspondence 
> (doesn't that sound so pleasantly 19th century? :))  and believe me, I 
> completely agree with the need for a license.  I've been researching 
> this for a long time, off and on (since it first came up many moons ago) 
> and have recently delved back into it, with the intent of both 
> attempting to find a solution for the docs team as well as writing a 
> longer article about copyright and licensing issues for blogs.  To cut 
> to the chase, I think either the Gnu Free Documentation License or one 
> of the Creative Commons licenses is the way to go (and I lean towards 
> the GFDL).  Simply dumping everything into the public domain is not a 
> satisfactory solution, in my opintion.
> 
> Cena
> 
> 
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