On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 08:46:51PM -0400, Eric Christensen wrote: > The defacto standard FLOSS license for documentation is the Creative > Commons CC-BY-SA license[0] which has been specifically designed for > documentation, both in source and final-form documents. Using this > license will allow CloudStack to reuse other upstream works and easily > allow reuse of CloudStack works.
I think it might be overstating the case a wee bit to call CC-BY-SA "the defacto standard FLOSS license for documentation" but the 3.0 CC-BY-SA license seems to have passed muster for several projects. (Notably, Fedora is using this as a default for docs, and Debian has given 3.0 the thumbs up as DFSG compliant.) It looks like many Apache projects are still using Apache as the docs license, though. I haven't been able to find much discussion of CC-BY-SA on Apache lists, and what I have found is mostly related to older (2.5 and before). I'll ask on Apache legal-discuss what the current thinking is about this. I would really like to get this wrapped up ASAP so we can get the licensing complete and move on to more documentation... > If the Apache license is required I'd ask about whether or not a > CC-BY-SA can also be applied to the documentation for dual-licensing. That's a thought. Any objections to dual-licensing? Eric - if it's dual licensed, do we need to place a CC-BY-SA notice in each file, or would we be able to place a top-level file in the docs directory rather than having two per-file includes? I'd like to avoid having more license text in the files than actual documentation... > [0] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > > - -Eric > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQIwh7AAoJEIB2q94CS7PRykMP/A5BOkADsA/x5TRic+lv28mm > LaMLpkz6AI/b1qeHq29M9XqzGx09ZKjNmP1Oy4EhFKJSU97wQucBtVoqBvcaVHPF > Mp6NG+HnRCIOWeT4NVfsS+Z6NWWasTzF5U/Ai6kGpZwBk8BNy91CXVklX/j3TsSG > kOl1G2v9I529xH9fdNbujWTQswezQRl3KgjGk170s1sC9EaAiN/e+j8LzeCEanGf > r7Xx+39s58+0bqz42983IuUrgyW10WW5gzGvFkbAFQJ3gHp4AVm/dFn2EjrLpp6c > 6XCbfCsY1ll8Klktqein7+KXRpXCJD8fOtD9ZtA8d3GkEf4ALxlzCquXPaMU78W2 > XB3jlCecz2fommLD5dttSU74UF9Nc0b3Zcwvph5aTYeY0vUlY8CZYzp3z4oiX4My > pbXGAxNUwIC/vqjnF0olCyo/8dn0xZuWwXIJIFWvXOKVHpnJWaO1gkF2as5EEkCj > XY4eses96VM+mgZFbrKMbhbNPtWZ3vJQdBPKR8z5oxm/sRbO9Cre9t1F5wEU5/SZ > 4WF0/rgGLada6CYzDSYHB78OHrtw9J8hvFmuiV5qFNcfwrYdiMvFgAa4uTdjWb2/ > 4RyGvy14Agq6gyPChz9nQCBKXzLCjZ2trvigfqbZtwkA3e9uFjK99+fB4nFf+MhC > YswSWKEA7Ht1U4ST9kLB > =gA5I > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Joe Brockmeier http://dissociatedpress.net/ Twitter: @jzb
