KDE Licensing Policy Updates

Jonathan Riddell jr at jriddell.org
Fri Oct 7 10:29:13 BST 2016


On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 06:04:47PM +0100, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Added:
> "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be
> licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0
> International."
> Rationale: we have no policy for wikis but they are very important to
> us especially with wikitoLearn so we should add one.  Our wikis are
> currently CC 3.0+FDL but we should consider moving to CC 4.0 (CC
> includes an or later so there's no difficultly in doing this).  FDL is
> unmaintained and not much used so we can drop this.

Wikipedia are also looking to move to CC 4.0
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0

Jonathan



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