10 Nov
2015
10 Nov
'15
9:47 p.m.
Thomas Mortagne wrote:
You can always put this kind of message in some public
wiki you run
but having this message by default for anyone that use XWiki does not
make any sense. It's not out job to decide what license will be used
for user content.
This message is not imposed on anyone to keep.
That you want to make it easier switch-offable, I sure respect though.
I know that almost all wiki-administrators delay the question of
choosing a license till very very long after the wiki has been started.
Choosing a default license in the case of content repositories is an
excellent way to make them think of it.
I know a zillion of fellow mathematicians which love putting things on
the web, basically implying that it is widely available, but never do a
decision on the license, just because they do not have the rights
competence to decide on that (or the time to acquire it). A few years
ago, I even had a very prolific author to whom we asked the license of
his set of GeoGebra constructions and he answered "I don't know, doesn't
the GPL of GeoGebra mean my files are under GPL?".
Such a misunderstanding is well avoided by this footer. It sets the stage.
Paul