OMG wiki license

[Richard Franks]

IANAL (or a hobby lawyer!) but I think if someone has contributed to
the unofficial wiki without checking for a license, and without
specifying their own license... then there is no copyright issue as
the contributors have implicitly put their words into the public
domain?

At least, I think it would be very hard to make a problematic legal
case from this.

Richard


On 1/25/07, Aloril <aloril at iki.fi> wrote:
> As subject implies I have proposal I fear might lead to long flamewar. I
> hope I'm wrong.
>
> Given these assumptions/facts:
>
> 1) We want to copy stuff from unofficial wiki to official wiki when it
> becomes available.
>
> 2) Unofficial wiki doesn't have any copyright statement
>
> 1) looks legally problematic given 2)
>
> Proposal:
>
> 1) Anybody who has contributed more than few lines to unofficial wiki
> gives permission to copy their contribution to official wiki no matter
> what license official wiki will use.
>
> 2) Statement like "You allow your contribution to be copied to official
> wiki under license official wiki will be using." is added to unofficial
> wiki when user is editing page.
>
> --
> Aloril <aloril at iki.fi>
>
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