[Mageia-discuss] copyright of wiki content

Wed Jun 8 23:05:22 CEST 2011

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 22:20:02 +0200, nicolas vigier wrote about Re:
+[Mageia-discuss] copyright of wiki content:
+
+>On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Dick Gevers wrote:
+>
+>> Can someone tell me in a few words what rights I have to the content (a
+>> few chapters only) of wiki material I wrote myself for Mandriva Wiki
+>> and/or it's predecessors kept up to date by me for several years - some
+>> of them dating from around 2003 ?
+>> 
+>> If every word in a chapter was written by me and I can prove it, may I
+>> publish the content elsewhere or do they remain Mandriva property?
+>
+>You can do what you want if you are the author.
+>
+>But everything published on mandriva wiki is CC-BY-SA :
+>http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Mandriva:Copyrights
+>so it can be published in other places keeping the same license.
+
+Okay!
+
+So do I understand correctly that if I publish the same or the roughly same
+content on my own URL or let's say Mageia's wiki I must include the clause:
+
+quote
+This was previously Mandriva's wiki content available under Creative
+Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5.
+You can find more information about Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
+2.5 in this web page: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
+unquote
+
+or something else? Sorry, but IANAL and I will never understand much about
+the legal implications of 'copyright'.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+Ciao,
+=Dick Gevers=
+