Wiki License

[Matthew Nuzum]

Hi Matthew,

You've raised some good questions. I know this has been discussed in
depth. However, I'm going to forward your request to the documentation
team to insure you get the best answer.

On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 04:15 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> What license is the Community Documentation
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/) under?  Given Ubuntu's philosophy
> (http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/philosophy), I think it should be released
> under a free documentation license
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#FreeDocumentationLicenses),
> such as the GNU Free Documentation License
> (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html).
> 
> As of now, the only guidance about this is "The website HTML, text,
> images audio, video, software or other content that is made available on
> this website are the property of someone - the author in the case of
> content produced elsewhere and reproduced here with permission, or
> Canonical or its content suppliers. Before you use this content in some
> way please take care to ensure that you have the relevant rights and
> permissions from the copyright holder.
> 
> You are welcome to display on your computer, download and print pages
> from this website provided the content is only used for personal,
> educational and non-commercial use."
> 
> Can you clarify and improve this situation by specifying a free license
> for the community documentation?
> 
> Matthew Flaschen
> 
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Matthew Nuzum
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