This reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask:
Last I checked, the contents of the Less Wrong Wiki were licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is… rather inconvenient. Is it at all possible to re-license it (ideally as CC BY-NC-SA, to match R:AZ itself)?
I can reach out to Trike Apps about this, but can we actually do this? Seems plausible that we would have to ask for permission from all editors involved in a page before we can change the license.
I have no idea; I cannot claim to really understand the GFDL well enough to know… but if doable, this seems worthwhile, as there’s a lot of material on the wiki which I and others could do various useful/interesting things with, if it were released under a convenient license.
This reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask:
Last I checked, the contents of the Less Wrong Wiki were licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which is… rather inconvenient. Is it at all possible to re-license it (ideally as CC BY-NC-SA, to match R:AZ itself)?
(My interest in this comes from the fact that the Glossary is mirrored on ReadTheSequences.com, and I’d prefer not to have to deal with two different licenses, as I currently have to.)
I can reach out to Trike Apps about this, but can we actually do this? Seems plausible that we would have to ask for permission from all editors involved in a page before we can change the license.
I have no idea; I cannot claim to really understand the GFDL well enough to know… but if doable, this seems worthwhile, as there’s a lot of material on the wiki which I and others could do various useful/interesting things with, if it were released under a convenient license.