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@@ -46,6 +46,22 @@ Don't do this - the material will not be assigned to the FSF until every contrib
 
 So simply claiming something is (C) FSF will not make it to be so, and it will not only have no effect, but also be confusing.
 
-Wiki has authentication, this is good. However, unless you have paper forms, all contributions remain with the original author. And if you had papers, you would have to disallow or moderate gues account contributions and either filter them out or change the copyright notice when they are filled in. This makes reusing Wiki-evolved content in free software projects by the FSF difficult btw, so don't expect major wiki-evolved content to be included in FSF manuals or so (this is not a problem, as long as everyone is aware of this limitation and keeps it in mind).
+Wiki has authentication, this is good. However, unless you have paper forms, all contributions remain with the original author.
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+And if you had papers, you would have to disallow or moderate guest account contributions and either filter them out or change the copyright notice when they are filled in. This makes reusing Wiki-evolved content in free software projects by the FSF difficult btw, so don't expect major wiki-evolved content to be included in FSF manuals or so (this is not a problem, as long as everyone is aware of this limitation and keeps it in mind).
 
 -- Marcus Brinkmann (no, not a Wiki-Name :)
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+So what you are saying is basically this:
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+1. We cannot assign the copyright to the FSF without the _paper_ work.
+2. We _can_ use content from the FSF (as long as we keep all copyright information, of course), but any content evolved from this is unusable for GNU manuals.
+3. Even if every newly registered user (and [[Main/TWikiGuest]] is disabled completely for the Hurd Web) agrees to our terms that agreement is useless without the _paper_ work.
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+I must admit I was completely clueless about this. This makes me start thinking about a lot of code I've written where I've assigned the copyright to the FSF, then that code is useless too. Man, have I been naive...
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+I have to take a moment to think about this. I've never thought about things in this way. When I do commercial work I've of course already signed my contract -- and that's a piece of paper. But I thought that electronic consent could be okey as well ... ouch, that hurd^Ht.
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+Oh, there is of course all the RCS diffs ... would that help, if we would like to have the Wiki content in GNU manuals?
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+-- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 14 May 2002