[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] GPL version for code in documentation (was: Please Vote on Evergreen Documentation Licensing)

[K.G.Schneider]

Whatever...

Karen S

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On Dec 22, 2009, at 6:32 AM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 05:42 -0800, K.G.Schneider wrote:
>> Dan, are you asking for a re-vote? If so, I suggest continuing with
>> the vote and letting the balloting language stand as-is; it is clear,
>> and allows some procedural latitude.
>>
>
> Karen, was it clear to the community that they were voting to make the
> code in the docs available under a license that's incompatible with  
> the
> existing OpenSRF / Evergreen code bases, until those code bases
> themselves adopt the GPL v3.0?
>
> For the amount of code that will be in the docs, that's probably fine,
> and the author can make that code available under both the GPL v2  
> (with
> the "or later" redistribution clause) so that it can also be
> redistributed with the OpenSRF & Evergreen code bases, as well as the
> GPL v3.0.
>
> So if we go ahead with licensing the code in the docs under the GPL  
> v3.0
> using the unmodified proposals, then that's what I'll do with the code
> in http://evergreen-ils.org/~denials/workshop.html and other authors /
> developers, being reasonable sorts, will probably do the same.
>
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