On 13 August 2012 06:06, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > There appears to be some confusion about differences among Creative Commons > licenses. The Creative Commons Attribution is what is known as CC/By and > there is no problem with it. Creative Commons Non-Commercial and Creative > Commons Share-Alike are the problems and the discussion you found was about > CC-SA. > > In addition, CC-0 is a quit claim -- it effectively makes a work public > domain except that the copyright owner can, I suppose, still provide > derivatives under more-restrictive licenses because the copyright does not > disappear (in the US, at least). > > With regard to CC-By, it is the copyright holder who gets to say what is an > acceptable attribution, and even to require that there be no attribution in a > particular case. In my experience, it is rare to find information about what > an acceptable attribution might be. > > It seems to me that working with publisher-ready "sources" (i.e., DocBook) > rather than the published form does not relieve one of honoring the origin. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul Davis [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 15:56 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Importing Documentation under CC-3.0 license into CouchDB project > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 2:54 AM, 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 > > I'll point out that a reason that we're wondering about compatibility > is that we found a section in the legal docs that mentions CC license > and specifically mentions not altering the imported work at [1]. > > The current plan in CouchDB to import these docs will be to pull the > original XML (DocBook) sources that CouchBase created, translate them > into a format for Sphinx (Python's plain text system) and then > continue to edit/maintain them alongside the rest of CouchDB's > sources. > > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#cc-sa
Thanks Dennis, Daniel, I'll get the xml ip clearance paperwork underway & then it looks like we are clear to go. A+ Dave
