[pydotorg-www] [PSF-Board] License of website

[Jeremy Baron]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 16:55, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> A.M. Kuchling wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 08:57:45PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>> Steve Holden wrote:
>>> At the moment the only thing we can tell people requesting the
>>> PSF's opinion on the wiki content is that we don't own the
>>> copyright and thus cannot make a statement.
>>
>> Should we add a notice to the edit page like Wikipedia's?  Wikipedia's
>> reads:
>>
>>       By clicking the "Save Page" button, you agree to the Terms of
>>       Use, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution
>>       under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and the GFDL. You agree that a
>>       hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative
>>       Commons license.
>
> Good idea, except we don't need the GFDL.
>
>> We'd still have the problem of getting a license to the existing wiki
>> content.  Perhaps we could take a vote of the contributors with logins
>> ("Are you OK with using license X?").
>
> How did Wikipedia manage the switch from GFDL to CC-BY-SA ? Perhaps
> we could use the same approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Licensing_update

-Jeremy