[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] Documentation licensing

[Sharp, Chris]

I plan to license under the share-alike (or something like it) which also requires that any derivatives are also given a similar license (much like the GPL).

Dan's original link:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/

Chris


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Bradley Kuhn would know -- and at least to me this makes sense.

Re the CC license, Dan, I assume you're referring to this one:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/

Yes?

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks:
>
> Well, maybe. A suggestion from Bradley Kuhn, former director of the
> Free Software Foundation and current director of the Software Freedom
> Conservancy, is to dual-license the documentation: put it under the
> GPL to match the license for the Evergreen software, but also make it
> available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
> (CC-BY-SA) license. A dual-licensing scheme maximizes the ability of
> the documentation to be used and adapted in different contexts without
> having to worry about conflicting license terms - so, for example, we
> could include a copy of the documentation heavily intermingled with
> the GPLed source code for the software, but also create and
> redistribute derivative works that mix in CC-BY-SA artwork and other
> CC-BY-SA licensed documentation. It's about maximum flexibility.
>
> --
> Dan Scott
> Laurentian University
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