Zfs: ZFS On Linux wiki content: no license specified

[sampablokuper]

The ZFS on Linux codebase is maintained at https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs.git . That repository's contents provide clarity about the licensing of the files in that repository. So far, so good!

However, the ZFS on Linux wiki is maintained in a separate repository: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs.wiki.git . None of the files in this repository specify how they are licensed.

Please can ZFS on Linux clarify the licensing status of the files in the ZFS on Linux wiki repository, to enable them to be collaboratively edited by people who do not already hold copyright in them? (Ideally, they would be licensed as CC BY-SA 3.0, to ensure compatibility with prominent wikis/websites such as Wikipedia and the Stack Exchange network.)

[ryao]

The CC BY-SA 3.0 is the same license that both the Gentoo wiki and the OpenZFS wiki use. We just need all contributors to the wiki to sign off on it and we can specify it.

While I have not contributed to the wiki yet, if this is not done before I make changes (which I can do now that I have edit privileges after asking yesterday), I sign off on all future changes that I make as being licensed under the CC BY-SA 3.0. That way there is no risk of needing my signed off after getting everyone else's.

I have taken the liberty of identifying all ZFSOnLinux Wiki contributors by github handle. Whether or not everyone of them has made contributions that are still part of the wiki and are substantial enough to be subject to copyright ownership is not something that I have checked. The full list can be obtained and verified by doing:

git clone https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs.wiki.git
cd zfs.wiki
git log | grep Author | sort -u

@behlendorf @nedbass @tonyhutter @dweeezil @FransUrbo @rincebrain @ofaaland @kernelOfTruth @jgoldschrafe @thegreatgazoo @dinatale2 @gmelikov @don-brady @davromaniak @dpquigl

Would all of you sign off on placing the entire wiki under the CC BY-SA 3.0. This is the same license as the OpenZFS wiki and various others? Right now, we do not specify a license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

If any of you are listed as the author on a wiki commit for which you are not the author, please say so because we will need to ask the actual author of that commit if it is still in the wiki and is nontrivial.

For full disclosure, I am the one who recommended that the OpenZFS wiki be subject to the CC BY-SA 3.0. I make the same recommendation for the ZFSOnLinux wiki.

[gmelikov]

I think we can resolve it here. @gmelikov, @rlaager, @dajhorn, @kpande and @kernelOfTruth have already agreed with licensing in #5960.

[sampablokuper]

@gmelikov wrote:

I think we can resolve it here. @gmelikov, @rlaager, @dajhorn, @kpande and @kernelOfTruth have already agreed with licensing in #5960.

5960 was only about the Debian Jessie Root on ZFS page, not about any other content in the wiki.

[kernelOfTruth]

oh well, @gmelikov , @sampablokuper agreed - my okay was referring to any wiki related contribution

[rlaager]

Current status:
@rlaager
@dajhorn
@kpande
@kernelOfTruth
@behlendorf
@nedbass
@tonyhutter
@dweeezil
@FransUrbo
@rincebrain
@ofaaland
@jgoldschrafe
@thegreatgazoo
@dinatale2
@gmelikov
@don-brady
@davromaniak
@dpquigl

[tonyhutter]

It''s ok with me. I don't even remember editing the wiki :-)

[dweeezil]

Ok with me too.

[jgoldschrafe]

I stuck my +1 on yesterday.

[rincebrain]

Go for it.

[davromaniak]

Hi.

No issue for me, you can go for it.

Thanks.

[behlendorf]

Yup, sounds good.

[dinatale2]

Ok with me.

[nedbass]

I agree.

[dpquigl]

I agree with the change.

[don-brady]

Fine by me

[gmelikov]

I agree too.

[thegreatgazoo]

Agree

[ofaaland]

OK with me

[sampablokuper]

@FransUrbo , is this OK with you? If not, any comments?

[FransUrbo]

Yes, I'm all good with this.

[gmelikov]

Thanks, looks like everyone agrees.

[behlendorf]

Thanks everybody. I've added a License page to the wiki git repository and referenced it from the footer.