I think it might be wise to have some sort of content licensing for when people post on drupal.org. This to make sure we will not run into legal problems later. It might sound a bit "sco-ish" and most people just ask questions and provide answers, but since there is the possibility for complete books on drupal, it might be something to consider.

I dont know what license (http://creativecommons.org/license/ ?) is appropriate but I dont think an orkut license ("we own you") will work.

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gábor hojtsy’s picture

gábor hojtsy
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It would be nice if someone would come up with a contrib license module, which enables people to select a content license from the commonly used ones (especially creativecommons). Other CMS systems also have this kind of integration, so the system can inject metadata related to that license...

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robert castelo commented

My Legal module does something along these lines.

It displays Terms & Conditions in a scrollable text box to users who want to register, and makes it a requirement that they accept the T&C before their registration is accepted.

http://drupal.org/project/legal

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kika commented

Also consider adding Creative Commons metadata to the RSS feeds: http://creativecommons.org/technology/usingmarkup

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bertboerland commented

Ber wrote some (same) stuff on the devel list (which I cant find the URL for due to server switch at this moment). Text inline (from Ber)

I think we should license or drupal.org content in a proper way. It is very
uncleat ATM. And unclear means all rights reserved copyright. But that
infringes the GPL-ed content we serve.

So I suggest we license our (user contributed) content as Creative commons
text. And all our downloads as GPL, with the much better readable CC GPL
summary.

WE should link to CC GPL from the frontpage and show the CC content licence in
our footer.

I suggest we link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
with the button http://creativecommons.org/images/public/cc-GPL-a.png from the
homepage of drupal (image should be hosted local if on the frontpage)

Furthermore, I suggest we license all content on drupal.org under CC 2.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
with the button http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gif
and the metadata to make machine recognise CC.

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bertboerland commented

closing since solved by this request. please note that a cc license should be bigger than the handbook but should be for the whole site, *all* postings can end up to the frontpage or the handbook and should be cc licenced as well.

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omar commented
Title: content license for drupal.org » content license for drupal.org - done

Here is a CreativeCommons module for Drupal... http://drupal.org/node/17497