I'm pleased to say that I received a rapid response on legal-discuss from Greg Stein:
"The ASL 1.1 license became the AL 2.0 license by dropping the "Software" term. The ALv2 is applicable to documentation. Please use that for all doc. Cheers, -g" See: http://markmail.org/message/wswgys56yelbd44f Best, Joe On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:32:15PM +0000, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > This is what I sent to legal-discuss. I'll report back if I get any > response. > > ----- Forwarded message from Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> ----- > > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:00:08 +0000 > From: Joe Brockmeier <j...@zonker.net> > To: Apache Legal <legal-disc...@apache.org> > Subject: Documentation Licenses: CC-BY-SA 3.0? > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > The CloudStack (incubating) project is in the process of putting its > documentation in shape, and we're wondering about the possibility of > using the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike (CC-BY-SA) 3.0. > > I see that Apache projects may include CC-BY-SA works[0], but the page > specifically calls out "unmodified media," which suggests that the idea > is that a project may include CC-BY-SA works from other sources, but it > doesn't look like CC-BY-SA would be a recommended license for material > created within the project. (Or perhaps I'm over-thinking that.) > > Looking through the legal-discuss list I've found very little discussion > of CC-BY-SA at all, and most about prior versions of the license. > > Can anyone give me an opinion on whether CC-BY-SA 3.0 would be an > acceptable license for our documentation going forward. (Either alone, > or perhaps dual-licensed.) The CC-BY-SA 3.0 license does seem to have > passed muster with a number of other open source projects. (Fedora has > adopted it, and it seems to be a DFSG-approved license, whereas 2.5 was > not.) > > Thanks! > > Joe > > [0]: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa > -- > Joe Brockmeier > http://dissociatedpress.net/ > Twitter: @jzb > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: legal-discuss-unsubscr...@apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: legal-discuss-h...@apache.org > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Joe Brockmeier > http://dissociatedpress.net/ > Twitter: @jzb -- Joe Brockmeier http://dissociatedpress.net/ Twitter: @jzb
