On Tuesday 04 September 2007 08:29, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
There are two entirely separate issues in this thread - let's not confuse them.
1) The old HaWiki content is good and unavailable. I want it made available, in whatever form is appropriate. Please :-)
2) Licensing - the old content cannot be dumped onto the new wiki. My personal view is "who cares". There are numerous license violations within the Haskell community (I can think of 4 off the top of my head), but in general everyone is working for the same purpose, and its just pesky laws getting in the way - not violating peoples intent. I realise that this will be a minority opinion, and that its probably a bad idea to follow my opinion on this.
HaskellWiki states "Recent content is available under a simple permissive license." That implies to me that there may be old content that isn't under a simple permissive licence, so users of the wiki should have an eye out for licencing issues. Could the hawiki content not be slapped in at .../haskellwiki/OldContent/... read-only with big, red, flashing, 'licence unknown, get contributor consents, etc, etc' warning? At least it can then be migrated easily if the rights-holder agrees, or be referenced by original works on haskellwiki. That seems a satisfactory attempt to honour the letter/intent of the law/contributor. If someone complains the offending content can be removed. Daniel