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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:33:52PM +0200 or thereabouts, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> This policy has a couple of important changes, the most important probably |
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> being the mandatory use of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike |
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> license, something several of our users requested. |
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Why that license instead of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike |
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license? |
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> We will convert our current documentation to CC-AS but we first need to find |
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> out if we just need approval of the Gentoo managers, or the approval of every |
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> author/contributor. |
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As I understand it, the copyright for our documentation (as well as any |
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written document) is held by the author unless they specifically assign it |
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to Gentoo Linux. So, we will likely need to get the approval of every |
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author, at least, though perhaps not every contributor. |
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--kurt |
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