Let's hope that it's compatible. CC-BY is roughly the MIT licence for non-software.
Tim McNamara @timClicks On 12 August 2012 19:54, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The CouchDB project received a donation of API docs [docs] > and build tools from company CouchBase [jan1][mc2], > with our PMC (Jan Lehnardt) OK to proceed [jan3]. > > 1. The licence of contribution is CC-3.0A [mc4][cc5]. Is this > compatible? > > 2. As this is a substantial contribution, can you advise if there's > any special requirements prior to pushing this into the ASF > couchdb repo? Link on legal site [asf6] suggest this should > be OK with attribution [dch7]. > > Thanks, Dave > [email protected] > > [docs]: > https://github.com/dch/couchdb/commit/6f64082f91ff33b4cf1d847974e353d275aa3889 > [jan1]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201106.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [mc2]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201107.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [jan3]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > [mc4]: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201202.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > [cc5]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ > [asf6]: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa > > [dch7]: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/blob/merge_docs/NOTICE#L77-91
