User talk:SuezanneC Baskerville

We need more/better help for newbies!

Please see my posts at https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#What_is_this_wiki_for_.3F and https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Talk:Volunteer_Portal#Volunteer_portal_not_good_for_newbies

Jaszon Maynard 09:29, 23 February 2008 (PST)

KB articles in the Wiki

Heyas Suezanne!
I saw you article about Packet Loss and later realized that it was a copy of SL Knowledge Base: this KB article. I know it's a stupid and annoying thing, but I wanted let you know that we're currently not allowed to copy and paste articles from the KB to the Wiki, due to copyright problems (see 1, 2, 3). The KB is under a different license than the Wiki and - even after a few Requests - this doesn't seem to change anytime soon. The last thing I heard about it is:

Jon Linden: technically speaking, the copyright that’s on the KB prohibits the wholesale copying of content from the KB to the wiki

Jon Linden: i’m not actually sure about just parts — especially parts that are just pure procedure
Jon Linden: my personal take — and this shouldn’t be interpreted as policy — is that a procedure can be derived from simply using the viewer, and so copying a procedure from the KB should be allowed, since it could theoretically be arrived at independently thereof
Jon Linden: but this is just my personal opinion

Jon Linden: i can follow up on that with our legal team

(taken from 3)

So I wanted to ask you to link to the KB, rather than copying from it. You can use Template:Slkb. I think I'll file a Jira for this copyright stuff... Will let you know when it's online.
Greetz, Lynch ^{(talk|contribs)} 13:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)