Re: [Semediawiki-user] Complete user manual for Semantic MediaWiki 1.4.3 as PDF

[Markus K. <ma...@se...>]

If there are any formal/legal details open, I hope that they are resolved soon 
enough. In any case, I have now included the PDF version into the pages of 
semantic-mediawiki.org, so that users browsing this site can find the PDF more 
easily.

-- Markus

On Freitag, 14. August 2009, Daniel Friesen wrote:
> Yup, if it's released under GFDL it's not copyright infringement.
> But not attributing people is GFDL violation.
>
> ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
>
> Yaron Koren wrote:
> > Right, but the document *is* GFDL-licensed, so I still don't think it
> > would be copyright infringement.
> >
> > In any case, the rest of what you wrote makes a lot of sense. So,
> > Dominika - would it possible to at least expand the copyright statement?
> >
> > -Yaron
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Friesen
> > <li...@da...
> > <mailto:li...@da...>> wrote:
> >
> >     Nooo... Republishing a copyrighted non-licensed document under GFDL
> > is copyright infringement.
> >
> >     Republishing a GFDL licensed document is following the license.
> >     When it
> >     comes to the pieces big projects like say, MediaWiki, are actually
> >     composed up of lots of separate copyright. Each contributor holds the
> >     copyright to whatever chunk of code they authored, they all agree to
> >     license it under the GPL (modifying and redistributing GPL code
> >     can only
> >     be done under the GPL; unless everyone that holds copyright agrees
> >     to do
> >     something else)
> >     It's also possible to transfer copyright from one person to
> >     another, or
> >     from one person to a single entity. Like how the FSF requires
> >     contributors to most GNU code to either transfer copyright to the
> >     FSF or
> >     make it PD (preferably the fomer; the idea being so that the FSF
> >     actually has the copyright to protect the program against the
> >     people who
> >     violate the GPL).
> >
> >     A copyright statement is necessary, however the statement needs to be
> >     correct. If it was written by a bunch of people the primary people
> >     need
> >     to be listed and the rest can be included with a "[...] and others."
> >     just like what you see on any Special:Version page:
> >     "This wiki is powered by MediaWiki, copyright (C) 2001-2008 Magnus
> >     Manske, Brion Vibber, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Starling, Erik Möller,
> >     Gabriel Wicke, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Niklas Laxström, Domas
> >     Mituzas,
> >     Rob Church, Yuri Astrakhan, Aryeh Gregor, Aaron Schulz and others."
> >
> >     ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire)
> >     [http://daniel.friesen.name]
> >
> >
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