Mark Thomas wrote: >I hate to rain on your parade but any restriction on how the result is >used that goes further than the (very few) restrictions in the ALv2 >means that the result it can't be licensed under the ALv2 and that will >cause problems.
OK, let's assume that the problem is that we may have naïvely selected an Apache license for documentation. In general, my opinion is that source code licenses are really never the right answer for documentation. Strawman: we replace any/all documentation we have (if the original authors of such documentation feel it does, we can invite them to offer to relicense such content, otherwise, we can start from scratch, various companies contributing to this project pay for documentation writers, so this is ok) with MIT/X11/BSD licensed documentation. If we do that, 1. am I right in understanding that per http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html Apache will not complain about our baseline license for this documentation? [which we would host / develop @ Apache] 2. Can we then let <insert-random-translation-engine-with-perfectly-reasonable-non-compete-cla use> help us maintain translations? The non-compete clause should have zero incompatibilities with MIT/X11/BSD. 3. Note: for the purposes of ensuring that these files do not get anyone upset, I propose that they not be hosted by Apache (my understanding is that we're hosting them @ <arbitrary-translation-hosting-service-of-the-day-currently-crowdin.net> anyway), since I'm pretty sure that if we asked Apache to host them, Apache would get annoyed. That's perfectly fine with me. 4. If we need an additional repository host for the translations beyond the <arbitrary-translation-hosting-service-of-the-day-currently-crowdin.net>, we can use github/<arbitrary-repository-hosting-service> Are there any further complaints to this straw man, or can we go back to the business of producing <software, documentation, products for people to use>? Note: I am not writing this message on behalf of anyone else. I don't really care if we use a machine translation service or not. I don't really care if we use my localization tool or not. I don't really care who we use for hosting. I do really not want to see people say "you can't do that" without suggesting "perhaps you have the wrong starting point, if you make this change to your starting point, you could do that". If you want to play lawyer-on-the-internet, please do everyone the favor of acting like a lawyer and offering a constructive suggestion.
