Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Wiki

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Alex Hudson <home [at] alexhudson.com>:

> On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 00:59 +0100, Alan Dawson wrote:
> > I don't see any copyright notice on it though?  Say i were to place some
> bash
> > script or other on it ( more likely copy a script from it!), what
> restrictions
> > are placed on copying and redistributing.
> 
> 
> The copyright belongs to the author, not to the wiki - saying that it's
> GPL'd or whatever doesn't make a blind bit of difference.
> 

Wiki's are great for producing collaborative documents, but how can you track
ownership and authorship of a document thats been edited on a wiki, perhaps by
authenticated users, people working pseudonomously, or people working
anonymously, behind NAT gateways where even tracking the IP address of changes
is impossible?

The concepts of ownership and copyright are radically altered on a public wiki,
and given that its impossible to prove ownership of a public wiki document,
there perhaps should be a default license on the wiki.

The different Licenses and schemes effect which way information can flow.  If
the Wiki is Public Domain, information from it could flow into a GPL pool, but
not the other way.

Anyhow I don't have any answers, but I find the concepts interesting.

AED
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