Re: Please discuss: License to use for documentation

2012-08-09 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/2012 11:12 AM, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > 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 >> desi

Re: Please discuss: License to use for documentation

2012-08-09 Thread Joe Brockmeier
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

Re: Please discuss: License to use for documentation

2012-08-08 Thread Eric Christensen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/2012 08:20 PM, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jessica Tomechak > mailto:jessica.tomec...@gmail.com>> > wrote: > > Hello all, We had earlier proposed using the cc-by-sa license for > documentation, for a variety of

Re: Please discuss: License to use for documentation

2012-08-08 Thread Joe Brockmeier
Apologies, my first reply only went to Jessica, apparently. On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 02:50:46PM -0700, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > Hello all, > We had earlier proposed using the cc-by-sa license for documentation, for a > variety of good reasons, and I believed this was approved by our mentors > an

Please discuss: License to use for documentation

2012-08-08 Thread Jessica Tomechak
Hello all, We had earlier proposed using the cc-by-sa license for documentation, for a variety of good reasons, and I believed this was approved by our mentors and/or legal. Recently, Joe B. did some work in the doc files and has inserted the Apache 2.0 license. It also looks like we have changed i