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On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:41:37 +0000 |
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Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi |
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> guys, |
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> With http://wiki.gentoo.org having their documents as CC-BY-SA 3.0, |
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> I thought it might be a good idea to work this out for our |
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> documents as well. That would allow us to "tech-write" stuff that |
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> is on the wiki properly, but also use the newer (and recommended) |
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> version. |
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> Of course, that won't be done by just making <license /> refer to |
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> the 3.0 as that will break our documents (legally, that is). |
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> Instead, I was considering to add @version support to the license |
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> entity (in dtd and xsl), update the supporting documents (xml-guide |
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> 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 |
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> that need to be CC-BY-SA 3.0, or for new |
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> documents. |
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> What's your take on |
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> this? |
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i should weigh in on this: |
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sure, go ahead and add the version attribute. only issue i can see is |
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that we'll have a ton of different licenses in play over time, which |
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will lead to the same problem we have now between the wiki and /doc/, |
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except that the potential conflicts will all be in /doc/, between our |
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own documents. |
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as long as future docs are copyrighted to the gentoo foundation or |
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something, relicensing to use the latest version of CC shouldn't be |
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much of a problem. though i really hate the idea of blanket |
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relicensing in general, having seen all the issues that's caused for |
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gentoo-wiki.com over the years. |
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we might want to think about something like the "or later" clause in |
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recent GPL versions, just to be able to keep up with the changes in |
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Creative Commons. although "or later" doesn't cover switching to a |
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completely different license, should that become necessary. |