[Grok-dev] Re: license for docs

[Sebastian Ware]

More licenses... more problems...

I suggest keeping it as simple as possible.

Mvh Sebastian

27 jan 2008 kl. 17.06 skrev daniel:

> Giving the authors of documentation a choice of licensing is a  
> pretty good incentive to contribute. I'm not sure what the reason is  
> to force new contributions under a ZPL software license or even a  
> GFD license.
>
> I think creative commons is a great idea since they specialize in  
> all types of documents and range from very permissive to non- 
> commercial share-alike. Creative commons licenses as well as being  
> for documents proper are also easy to select and comprehend because  
> they typically include an easy to understand non-legal-jargon  
> description with links to the legal code.
> Another possible benefit is that Creative Commons licenses can be  
> customized by country easily while being selected. You can choose a  
> USA version or a Brazil version or any other of their many options.
>
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2008 7:49 PM, Uli Fouquet <uli at gnufix.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
> [snip]
> > Would the Content Licensing add-on allow an easy way for people to  
> set
> > the desired license for the content? Or alternatively, any  
> standard way
> > to include license info in a text using ReST?
>
> For ReST a simple 'meta-tag' should do::
>
>        ===================
>        How To Smash Things
>        ===================
>
>        :Author: Grok
>
>        :License: ZPL 2.1
>
> This could be handled special by the site in terms of layout/rendering
> and in terms of site policy.
>
> [snip]
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
> Uli
>
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