Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 14:01:52 -0400 Paul W. Frields sticks...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 01:22:46PM +1000, Ruediger Landmann wrote: So far we've looked at the WTFPL[1], CC0[2], and the so-called GNU All-Permissive License[3]. We had to regretfully reject the WTFPL on the

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
RF == Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com writes: [Offensiveness of WTFPL text] RF Agreed, this is unfortunate. :) Might I suggest simply modifying the offensive language? I know license proliferation is bad, but if the result is legally equivalent and serves the necessary purpose then I

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Fontana
[removed publican-list from cc] On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:54 -0500 Jason L Tibbitts III ti...@math.uh.edu wrote: [re: WTFPL] Might I suggest simply modifying the offensive language? I know license proliferation is bad, but if the result is legally equivalent and serves the necessary

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-06 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 10/06/2009 02:01 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: We need this license to be compatible with inclusion in works produced by Fedora Docs, and in works that incorporate content from the Fedora wiki, right? If CC0 can coexist peacefully in that role with the new CC licensing used in both those

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-06 Thread Paul W. Frields
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:14:12PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 10/06/2009 02:01 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: We need this license to be compatible with inclusion in works produced by Fedora Docs, and in works that incorporate content from the Fedora wiki, right? If CC0 can coexist

Re: [Fedora-legal-list] Re: [publican-list] Adjusting copyright information

2009-10-06 Thread Tom spot Callaway
On 10/06/2009 02:46 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 02:14:12PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: On 10/06/2009 02:01 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: We need this license to be compatible with inclusion in works produced by Fedora Docs, and in works that incorporate content from the