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bjg Location: Bristol, United Kingdom	Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:18:16 am comment license under each comment there is a line that says "Licensed under the GNU GPL"... what if I don't agree???? Maybe that could be removed. -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd http://www.network-theory.co.uk/
zak Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:38:17 pm Better handling of comment licensing I believe that the GPL is a poor license for non-software literary works. I suggest this approach for handing comment licensing: Place all comments under a simple, permissive license - such as the Creative Commons Attribution License v2.5. Place a prominent notice near the comment entry form that states the licensing terms that will be applied to the comment. Advise commenters who wish to make substantive comments under a different set of licensing terms to link to their comments in from the comment field. --zak
greve Location: when not travelling: Zürich, Switzerland	Thursday 27 October 2005 1:23:31 pm Remove or customise I agree it makes no sense to put it under each entry and not give people a chance to select their license. So the easiest solution would be to remove the license under comments. A better solution would be to switch to the verbatim clause and let people know about that clause before they submit the comment. The overkill solution would be to actually allow them to select the license for their comment. -- Georg http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/
zak Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada	Thursday 27 October 2005 10:39:33 pm Georg and I agree. Anyone else? Hi Georg, I concur (and yes, the verbatim license is more than sufficient for comments). Anyone else want to pitch in? --zak
bjg Location: Bristol, United Kingdom	Tuesday 01 November 2005 8:59:12 pm Re: comment license The lowtech solution is that people could put their license in their comment (manually). The verbatim license is fine by me though.-- thanks for changing it. (Actually, I just noticed that people could put it in their profile signature). -- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd http://www.network-theory.co.uk/

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bjg

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:18:16 am

comment license

under each comment there is a line that says "Licensed under the GNU GPL"... what if I don't agree???? Maybe that could be removed.

-- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd http://www.network-theory.co.uk/

zak

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Wednesday 26 October 2005 11:38:17 pm

Better handling of comment licensing

I believe that the GPL is a poor license for non-software literary works. I suggest this approach for handing comment licensing: Place all comments under a simple, permissive license - such as the Creative Commons Attribution License v2.5. Place a prominent notice near the comment entry form that states the licensing terms that will be applied to the comment. Advise commenters who wish to make substantive comments under a different set of licensing terms to link to their comments in from the comment field.

--zak

greve

Location: when not travelling: Zürich, Switzerland

Thursday 27 October 2005 1:23:31 pm

Remove or customise

I agree it makes no sense to put it under each entry and not give people a chance to select their license. So the easiest solution would be to remove the license under comments. A better solution would be to switch to the verbatim clause and let people know about that clause before they submit the comment. The overkill solution would be to actually allow them to select the license for their comment.

-- Georg http://www.fsfe.org/fellows/greve/

zak

Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thursday 27 October 2005 10:39:33 pm

Georg and I agree. Anyone else?

Hi Georg, I concur (and yes, the verbatim license is more than sufficient for comments). Anyone else want to pitch in?

--zak

bjg

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Tuesday 01 November 2005 8:59:12 pm

Re: comment license

The lowtech solution is that people could put their license in their comment (manually). The verbatim license is fine by me though.-- thanks for changing it. (Actually, I just noticed that people could put it in their profile signature).

-- Brian Gough Network Theory Ltd http://www.network-theory.co.uk/

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