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In the past it has been asked what the license is for the articles and tutorials put on the Wiki. Unfortunately we have not explicitly specified that until now, but we want to change this situation.

So therefore we are proposing the apply the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license to the Wiki content.

Simply said this means that others can adapt the articles and share them with others, as long as attribution is given and the work is shared under the same license.

The non-commercial part is something we are not completely sure about yet. We would like to prevent people from selling all those nice articles and tutorials, but it should be allowed to use the knowledge described in them in commercial projects. If there are any lawyers around please correct us if the selected license does not cover that.

For all the current content on the Wiki this license change means that the authors of the articles will have to agree to this change. So anyone who does not agree, please let us know. Else we will apply the selected license to the Wiki from November 1st 2009.

Any other thoughts or feedback are also welcome of course,
 
Hi Folks

Arno -
Interesting question.

Don't know if applying the CCA is permissible,
as the majority of data posted, (i.e. published in the wiki),
apparently already contravenes the MS SDK licensing. :D

e.g.
From the SDK eula.html, (my emphasis).

1. OVERVIEW.
a. Software. The software includes development tools, software programs and documentation.

and wrt to documentation as software -

5. SCOPE OF LICENSE.
The software is licensed, not sold.
This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software.
Microsoft reserves all other rights.
Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement.
In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.
For more information, see www.microsoft.com/licensing/userights.
You may not
· work around any technical limitations in the software;
· reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits, despite this limitation;
· make more copies of the software than specified in this agreement or allowed by applicable law, despite this limitation;
· publish the software for others to copy;
· rent, lease or lend the software; or
· use the software for commercial software hosting services.


HTH
ATB
Paul
 
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Hi Paul,

I don't think that the Wiki contains many content that comes directly from the SDK, does it? Most articles I am aware of have been written by community members.

Those parts of the license you mention could even be used to say this entire community is doing things that are not allowed. I am not sure if we should discuss that question now :).
 
Not sure what this applies to...

"Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes."

Does this mean you can't use the tutorials directions in your own payware scenery/fs addon. Or does it apply to the actual tutorial (You can't redistribute it for $$$)


Looks good to me:D
 
flyscenery said:
Does this mean you can't use the tutorials directions in your own payware scenery/fs addon. Or does it apply to the actual tutorial (You can't redistribute it for $$$)
Click to expand...

That's the question I also have. I want to allow use in commercial sceneries, but prevent people from selling the actual tutorials.
 
Just read this in the full license.

"You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in con-nection with the exchange of copyrighted works."

Can't make it out though, too much PR talk.
 
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