Re: Help-octave post from address@hidden requires approval

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On 20 February 2013 12:12, Anja Skrba <address@hidden>wrote:
>> I am writing to inquire regarding your web page about FAQ for Octave
>> users where I have found a lot of useful information. My name is
>> Anja and I'm currently studying at the Faculty of Computer Science
>> in Belgrade. Here is the URL of your article:
>> http://wiki.octave.org/FAQ
>>
>> I would like to share it with the people from Former Yugoslav
>> Republics: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bosnia
>> and Herzegovina.
>>
>> I would be grateful if you could allow me to translate your writing
>> into Serbo-Croatian language, that is used in all Former Yugoslav
>> Republics and to post it on my website. Hopefully, it will help our
>> people to gather some additional knowledge about computing.
>
> That should be ok, and I was going to tell you to that you don't even
> need permission to do so, but I just noticed that we haven't been
> careful about our licensing of the wiki content. I'm not sure what to
> do about this, nor which license should we choose. My own inclination
> is that Wikipedia's own CC license should be ok, or else the GPL,
> since some of the wiki content is taken directly from Octave's source
> code. The FAQ in particular that you're linking to, is derived from an
> old document that itself was GPLed
>
> Therefore, unless someone complains within the next day or so, I'm
> going to put a clause on the wiki that the content is licensed under
> the same terms as Octave itself (GPL), and thus translations are
> allowed and encouraged. This seems like the simplest solution. If
> someone complains about their wiki contributions being under the GPL,
> we may have to remove them.
>
> - Jordi G. H.

GPL is ok otherwise we should use CC-BY-SA