I'll poke the legal-discuss thread; however why can't we have the build
script for the tar.gz start by removing the .md file?

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Anirudh <anirudh2...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Justin,
>
> We cannot just remove the documentation without modifying the original
> repo, since it is a submodule.
> I have opened an issue to googletest to see if it can be relicensed:
> https://github.com/google/googletest/issues/1604
> Is this acceptable for the release?
>
> For issue 1 and 2, is the information being in README and API docs enough
> or do we need to add a
> warning for Creative commons license when script is launched ?
>
> Anirudh
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 5:03 PM, Justin Mclean <justinmcl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > My reading of that is the documentation is under a CC license and the
> code
> > under a different one. That's quite common. You could just not include
> the
> > documentation.
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
> >
> > On Sat., 12 May 2018, 9:48 am Anirudh, <anirudh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 3:57 PM, Justin Mclean <
> jus...@classsoftware.com
> > >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > > For 1 and 2, Considering that the Creative Commons License files
> > aren't
> > > > > part of the release source itself but downloaded when user calls
> some
> > > > > specific api or runs some script, would these be blocking issues ?
> > > >
> > > > No but this need to explicitly pointed out to the user that they are
> > > > downloading something that is not compatable with the ALv2
> > > >
> > >
> > > The information regarding the license is currently added both to the
> > README
> > > of the example for 1, and also on the docs for the API call for 2.
> > > Are you suggesting that some kind of warning be provided during
> download
> > of
> > > these datasets?
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > For 3, I have added it to known issues and I look forward to any
> > other
> > > > > suggestions you have related to this.
> > > >
> > > > Ask the owner for it to be relicensed under another license?
> > > >
> > >
> > > The link (
> > >
> > > https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/
> ec44c6c1675c25b9827aacd08c0243
> > 3cccde7780/googlemock/docs/DevGuide.md
> > > )
> > > states the following at the bottom :
> > >
> > > "This page is based on the Making GWT Better
> > > <http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html> guide from
> the
> > > Google
> > > Web Toolkit <http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/> project. Except as
> > > otherwise noted <http://code.google.com/policies.html#restrictions>,
> the
> > > content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution
> > 2.5
> > > License <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/>."
> > >
> > > At the top it states the following ::
> > >
> > > "All Google Mock source and pre-built packages are provided under the
> New
> > > BSD License <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php>."
> > >
> > > Since the CC-BY license states "except as otherwise noted", does this
> > mean
> > > that the CC-BY-2.5 license at the bottom is void ?
> > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Justin
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