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SearchI think it is time to discuss the license for EGLUG content.
Should we use one license on all the content or different licenses??
What licenses should we use? one of Creative Commons ?? or FDL or something else??
I'm starting this discussion because I want to use the case study (about the egyptian cloth company that runs on FOSS) in Center for Knowledge Society arabic e-newsletter, and I think we should have a general rule for the use of EGLUG content, so we wont need to discuss it everytime someone wants to use our content.
important topic
i guess anyhow it`s should be free.. i took a fast look at the 2 license and i guess Creative Commons Noncommercial is good. and i didn`t real read all of FDL yet.but i`ll soon.
peace
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Attribution.
Well its realy important thing I have read both licenses I think Creative commons is better specialy Attribution one I think we dont care if others used our content but at least refer back to us :):)
You just beat me to it!
I was just wondering about that the other day and thought we should start a discussion. This needs careful reading of both licenses. Whatever we choose, a new member should agree upon registration that any content he contributes to EGLUG is by default under that license unless he explicitly specifies other license when contributing with a specific piece of content. Or include a note or a link on the "create content" page.
Default?
Actually, you raise a good point. I think that the license we choose should not be optional and should apply sitewide.
Someone could otherwise create content and then place it under a restrictive license, under which circumstances eglug would implicitly be forced to support this by hosting it.
-- Panem et *burp* circenses
how about a couple of licenses
by default licensing sounds like a good idea to me, and off course it should be a Free/Open license.
however I think it will be difficult to agree on whether to use a copyleft license or not.
there are situations when I think we should absolutly not use a copyleft license, like for instance if we make a press release or a press kit, you want people to reuse that in any possible way.
on the other hand if I spend time writing a long document I would only want it published with a copyleft license, if copyleft is not an option then my non casual content would probably end up on my website and only links will be posted to eglug.
so how about we give people a choice of two licenses, one copyleft and one not, with one of them being default.
or even better, the choice would only be available to articles and wikipages but not to comments, forum posts or news items?
tab3an there is a whole other problem which is derivative work, translated material for instance has to abide by the original license, we need to make sure that correct license info is published and not just stick our own default.
cheers,
Alaa
http://www.manalaa.net
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
how about user selects it
like here
so we got several selectable cc licenses for everything and the default one is the site wide agreed upon license.
how to do it is not a prob
its the decision on which licenses to use that is a problem.
cheers,
Alaa
http://www.manalaa.net "i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
more options in a blog
well i think in blog spaces, seniors can select any of the creative commons choices.
outside blogs its a single (by-sa*) license. May be a (by) only license occasionally for stuff that we might want to be consumed by the media like our about page, faq, press kit etc..
صحي النوم
الظاهر ان الحكاية دي ماتعملش فيها حاجة من ساعتها، طب دلوقتي عايزين نحدد موقف ونتفق عليه ونبدأ تصويت والنظام ده
طب ليه دلوقتي بالذات يعني؟ أولا عشان أنا مزنوق في صفحة من الويكي وعايز أحطها في كتاب (رخصته FDL بالمناسبة) وثانيا عشان الموضوع اتساب لفتره طويله وأنا يهمني أعرف ظروف الحاجات اللي بكتبها في الويكي ايه.
أظن أن احسن حاجة أن منختارش رخصة واحدة لكل المحتوى، لكن نختلف حسب نوع المحتوى، يعنى المقالات والويكي مش زى المنتدي ومش زي المدونات وهكذا، ولا كده هيعقد الحكاية؟
أما بالنسبة للرخصة اللي هنختارها فأنا مش خبير في الحاجات وهنعوز حد بيفهم في الكلام ده يقول الفرق بينهم إيه
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دلوقتي محدش
دلوقتي محدش معبرني، يبقى اعتبر ان محتوى eglug.org ملوش رخصة و للا إيه ؟
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hm
i said again it should be free/open License ... but i don't know about them i didn't read them so if someone in the community have an opinion please post it and let the community disscuse what it should be.
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For me:
WWW: The place for organized randoms!
خلاص لو محدش
خلاص لو محدش عنده اعتراض على الرخصتين دول يبقى المفروض نعمل تصويت ونختار واحدة منهم (لو هنستخدم رخصة واحدة لكل حاجة)، حد معترض ؟
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yea
i agree with that,let's make a poll
i'm known as Mnabil
3 or 4 days
let us talk about it and give the community time to read both license and see if there is any another ideas.. so give it like 3 or 4 days before making the poll
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poll
ok let us vote which license it will be ...which one it will be GFDL , Creative Commons Share alike and Creative commons non-commercial.. now we need 27 point to start the poll .... and here is my 9 points
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You want to have 3
You want to have 3 options:
Or am I understanding it the wrong way ??
WWW: The place for organized randoms!
what do u think ?
yes we can chose one of the 3 or we can add an option on the poll so the author can chose whatever license he likes from this 3 so it will be like
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Adding the 3 licenses will
Adding the 3 licenses will complicate the things. I'd say we add all of them in that case. And in that case, What are we going to do about the old content ??
I suggest:
Before we post the poll, We need to sit down and write a paragraph or 2 about the options we have so people can read and vote.
WWW: The place for organized randoms!
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Idea
I have talked with Maameer and we reached this idea:
we will add this licenses in eglug
so what do you think ? should we add the rest of the CC ?
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no sorry I don't think we
no sorry I don't think we should offer a no derivs option. how could a wiki use no deriv? this is a FOSS community it would be plain stupid not to allow derivative work. commercial or not commercial is a good question.
I also think we should have one single license and that it should apply to old and new content period, having multiple licenses will just confuse people.
if you feel strongly about it you can publish on eglug under the license EGLUG chooses, and on your own space under whichever license you want (dual licensing), but this will only apply to the original version, any derivatives generated on EGLUG will follow EGLUG's license
cheers,
Alaa
husband of the Grand Waragi Master
http://www.manalaa.net
we reached this
we reached this conclusions from talking in the IRC and on the phone " only explaning more the same points " . i do agree about the No derivs issue. but we having one license i'm not sure i think it's not that complecated that the user will chose one of license that the community approved..
peace
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what is complicated is not
what is complicated is not choosing a license, what is complicated is doing derivative work that involves multiple licenses.
you wrote a wiki page using GFDL and I wrote a wikipage using some CC license and someone wants to edit them and combine them under one page which license should she use?
you wrote a forum post and used GFDL, I'm writing a comment to that post and I want to choose a different license.
and so on.
cheers,
Alaa
husband of the Grand Waragi Master
http://www.manalaa.net
OK
hmm good point. so we will one license will be one of to as i think
so what do u think guys this is cool ? we will start collect 27 point to create the poll ? or someone have something else in mind would like to share ?
peace
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I agree though that we
I agree though that we should offer more info with the poll, maybe a wikipage with links to the three licenses and links to non legalese description of them and a short paragraph describing each of them in arabic for those who will find even the non legalese too difficult to understand.
cheers,
Alaa
husband of the Grand Waragi Master
http://www.manalaa.net
poll options
so the poll will be like this ?
which license you want eglug to hold
can someone please summarize the license ?
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agree
I agree with this poll scheme
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I second that
I second this poll
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why we have CC
why we have CC Attribution-NonCommercial as a choice and we have at the same time CC Attribution-ShareAlike ?
can we merge CC licenses to be
Diaa Radwan