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On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:41:37PM +0000, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> With http://wiki.gentoo.org having their documents as CC-BY-SA 3.0, I |
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> thought it might be a good idea to work this out for our documents as well. |
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> That would allow us to "tech-write" stuff that is on the wiki properly, but |
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> also use the newer (and recommended) version. |
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> Of course, that won't be done by just making <license /> refer to the 3.0 as |
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> that will break our documents (legally, that is). Instead, I was considering |
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> to add @version support to the license entity (in dtd and xsl), update the |
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> supporting documents (xml-guide and the like) so that this can be done less |
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> intrusively. |
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> In other words, support "<license version='3.0' />" for documents that need |
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> to be CC-BY-SA 3.0, or for new documents. |
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> What's your take on this? |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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I'm for it, but what's keeping the docs team from just bumping the license |
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version? |
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According to the Gentoo Linux Documentation Project's (GLDP) policy [1], I |
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do not have a say in the matter regarding which license the document I |
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wrote is published under. This tells me that it's at the will of the GLDP |
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whether or not to republish the document under a new license, essentially |
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being just pointing `<license />' to the new text. |
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Which is all fine by me because the document I did write was done under |
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the auspices of Gentoo. Meaning I assumed that once GLDP accepted my |
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contribution, it then owns the documentation I contributed. |
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Mr. Aaron W. Swenson |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Developer, Proxy Committer |
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Footnotes: |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/doc/doc-policy.xml#doc_chap3 |