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commit: 4256b39ccf77df6957f1a42bb776fe041d89be6f |
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Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Tue Aug 25 21:22:59 2015 +0000 |
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Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Tue Sep 29 07:05:35 2015 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=4256b39c |
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Hosted projects: Clarify that CC BY-SA should be used as license. |
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Bug: 558766 |
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hosted-projects/text.xml | 5 +++-- |
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1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) |
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diff --git a/hosted-projects/text.xml b/hosted-projects/text.xml |
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index 55a6b8a..d662d20 100644 |
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--- a/hosted-projects/text.xml |
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+++ b/hosted-projects/text.xml |
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@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ In practice, this means the following: |
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<p> |
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All hosted projects should use an appropriate open / free / libre license. |
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-Typically this will be the GPL v2 for software, and the Creative Commons license |
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-for documentation. However, reasonable exceptions can be made <d/> sometimes it |
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+Typically this will be the GPL v2 for software, and some version of the |
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+Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA-*) for documentation. |
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+However, reasonable exceptions can be made <d/> sometimes it |
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makes more sense to use the LGPL or a *BSD license, and for application-specific |
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projects going with the application's license may make more sense (the |
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<c>gentoo-syntax</c> package for <c>vim</c> uses the <c>vim</c> license, for example). |
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