On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:20, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
About 2 years ago, somebody might recall the exact date, I do not, I grabbed a single month's worth of mailing list, and examined every posting. From them, I extracted and distilled each question and useful answer into a Q&A document. Something along the lines of a FAQ. [snip] You don't need to be a Jedi Master level to distil posts into basic Q&As. Anybody can do it. Even me.
A reminder: contributions/edits to the wiki text must be released under the CC-BY-SA and GFDL licenses. So the distillation process requires reinterpreting (if not just rewording) if the author hasn't released the text in CC-BY-SA; see http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use for more info. Many messages here have something like an explicit .signature that forbids redistribution beyond the "intended recipient". Some text can be verbatim per "fair use", but only some.
When I signed up for this list in 2005, I didn't see any notice about contributions to the list being additionally licensed under other licenses. Maybe that has changed over the 5 years.
I've made lots of edits to the wiki, and I'd hate to see them reverted due to mislicensing. (is that a word?)