Wiki content license

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Wed Mar 5 16:31:00 GMT 2008


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> By contributing to any page on this wiki, you agree to assign
> copyright for your contribution to the Free Software Foundation. The
> Free Software Foundation promises to always use either a verbatim
> copying license or a free documentation license when publishing your
> contribution.

Does this preclude european contribotors? It is not in general
possible to just simply assign copyright in Europe at least in
some jurisdictions, some moral rights cannot be assigned away.
Probably needs some statement like "to the extent permitted
by law". In any case this license should be reviewed by an
attorney, has that happened?
> 
> We grant you back all your rights under copyright, including the
> rights to copy, modify, and redistribute your contributions.
> ====
> 



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