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pacho
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Release Notes License

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What license is used at http://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.0/ ?

Seems that it has a copyright (Copyright © 2003-2005 The Battle for Wesnoth)... Can I copy and paste it in other sites (forums, .etc)?

Is it under GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html?

Thanks a lot :)
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Re: Release Notes License

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God I hope its not under the GFDL, as that license fails to meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and would make the documentation unsuitable for inclusion in Debian.
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Post by Dave »

Good question. I tend to think we should publish website data such as that without a copyright notice and allow it to fall into the public domain. Any other opinions on the matter?
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Post by lwa »

Dave wrote:Good question. I tend to think we should publish website data such as that without a copyright notice and allow it to fall into the public domain. Any other opinions on the matter?
IMHO, derived works (images, screen copies, scenario abstracts, etc) should not fall into the public domain.
If you want to, you have to contact theyre authors to change the licence.
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Post by ivanovic »

lwa wrote: IMHO, derived works (images, screen copies, scenario abstracts, etc) should not fall into the public domain.
If you want to, you have to contact theyre authors to change the licence.
I think at the moment the stuff that is in the forum has to be under the GPL or marked if it is not GPL. But the forum is not the same as the website. On the site (and the wiki) there are infos about the game, how-to's and stuff like that. These are free for use. I think that texts like the announcement/release notes are of course free.
And where is the license marked on the website? If there counts anything beside "free-for-all" or GPL the author has to mark it.
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Dave wrote:Good question. I tend to think we should publish website data such as that without a copyright notice and allow it to fall into the public domain. Any other opinions on the matter?
I don't think doing that really makes it public domain. For countries that have aligned their law with the Berne Convention, you don't need a copyright notice for something to be copyrighted.
I think if you want people to be able to reuse the documentation in derivative works, it would be best to put up some sort of notice.
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