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On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:54:57PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> public-domain is compatible with EVERYTHING |
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I'm a bit in the middle here. |
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I prefer to have all Gentoo documentation under the CC-BY-SA license. If |
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someone edited a public domain document but wants to make sure that his |
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contribution remains attributed, he must make sure that his contribution |
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itself is licensed while the rest of the work remains PD - and that's one |
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can of worms we would be opening. |
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Otoh, I do feel that PD documents shouldn't disapproved. After all, many |
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great documents are PD or have no copyright (due to the deceased being dead |
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for more than 70 years). |
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But I'm totally opposed to making the license tag more flexible. We're not |
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allowing the Gentoo Ebuilds to be released under anything else than GPL-2 |
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either... |
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In this situation, I would say that it is best that the document mentions |
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that it is released under the public domain and it doesn't set <license/>. |
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Wkr, |
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