[jdev] wiki.xmpp.org

[Dave Cridland]

On Tue Dec 22 10:19:06 2009, Nicolas Vérité wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:16, Sander Devrieze
> <sander at sanderdevrieze.net> wrote:
> > 2009/12/22 Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im>:
> >> I've started moving some pages from Wikipedia to wiki.xmpp.org,  
> as
> >> linked from http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Servers
> >>
> >> Feel free to help out. :)
> >
> > You should fix the license as public domain is not compatible with
> > Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
> 
> Besides, in some countries, one cannot write directly under PD.
> 
> But before considering a heavy license change process, can you  
> please
> Sander tell us or point to what's incompatible?

The CC licenses all assert copyright, whereas PD is a waiver of  
copyright.

As you say, in Europe, there's actually no such thing as Public  
Domain, as such, so the actual legal standing of the copyright in  
works authored by European member state nationals claimed to be  
public domain is vaguely hazy, but I suspect any judge would take it  
to be a permissive license in the spirit to which it's intended.

I've got no useful solution for this, though.

Dave.
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