[ewiki] Re: getting in touch

Hello again.

Thank you all for your replies. I respond to all of you in one mail, so things don't get split up too much.

As you suggested, I put up a wikipage (for now, in my wiki) detailing on the plugins / improvements I propose. See

   http://brightbyte.de/wiki/index.php?id=BetterEWiki

Please do comment there.


Now in response to your mails:

First: I found the archive now, thanks. I missed the link before :(

Now...

Andy Wrote: 
We do have some GPL plugins but we do try to minimize those, especially
if what you have is only minor hacks.  How is public domain impossible?
Can't you just disclaim copyright?  Or 'license' it as "These
modifications are freely available to all for any purpose whatsoever.
They come with no warrantee whatsoever; neither express, implied, nor of
merchantability?"  Mario is in Germany so he may know enough about
European laws to help you here.

The "License" you suggested above is probably fine, I was just thinking it would be good to have some legally sound way to do this. Maybe a Creative Commons license or some such would be best. The only restriction I would like to put on my code is that I would like to be mentioned there - but that'S not even an absolute requirement.

"Disclaiming Copyrights" is not possible under german/european law, beacuase there is no such thing as "copyright" here, only "creators rights" (Urheberrecht), which can not be transferred. But I can grant the right to use the code to anyone - which ist not exactly the same thing, but close enough I guess.

Actually, I like OpenSource licences for the "must give credit" part, but I dislike all the legalese. "Share-alike" is also nice, but not essential. I'm not a big fan of the GPL as a specific license. That one just came to mind first.

Mario Wrote: 
It is intentional that the mailing lists address is not written anywhere.
The list itself is open-post, meaning that one didn't even need to sign
up for writing here. But because that typically leads to lots of spam, I
decided to keep the address somewhat secret.

Well, not putting it anywhere on a webpage is OK with me, although something like "the list ewiki at freelists.org" would be good. But I would suggest putting the full exmail address and the link to the archive, etc into the welcome message sent out by the list manager (that is a custom message, right?).

So, thanks again for your response. Please have a look at the page I put up in my wiki and tell me what you think.

Regards,
Daniel

PS: I'm a wiki-addict: when writing mails I catch myself looking for the preview button...

Oh, BTW, if you like, have a look at my user page in the Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Duesentrieb - i'm quite active there.

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