Hey Noah, sure you can use the text from "CouchDB Joins" in the docs. Or, ehem, <formal voice>, I hereby grant the Apache CouchDB project a license to use this content under the terms of the ASL. :)
My earlier point was more about the reader of the CouchDB docs being confused by the section starting with the words "Just today, there was a discussion on IRC how you’d go about [...]" and all that. The whole text needs to be put into context/perspective for the reader, namely that it's from a blog post in 2007. This isn't really about making me happy with the attribution :) Thanks, Chris On 10.10.2013, at 15:13, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Christopher, > > Slight snag. Per the Apache legal guidelines, we'll move the copyright > notice out of the file and put it in NOTICE (actually, probably in the next > release, as we don't want to hold up this one any more than we have to, and > it's not a blocker for us). > > But we can't actually ship this without a license. Would you be willing to > license it to us? I think that a statement of intent on the mailing list is > probably fine. (As if submitting a patch.) The Apache license is probably > our preferred one. > > Thanks, > > > On 22 August 2013 14:06, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Oh..really. I told myself to not mix content from different sources >> and now I'm caught myself on this(: Thanks, fixed! >> -- >> ,,,^..^,,, >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Christopher Lenz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi Alexander, >>> >>> No problem. But the metadata you added now makes it look like I wrote >> the whole page, whereas it's just the “Using View Collation” part that you >> copied from my blog post :P >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Chris >>> >>> On 22.08.2013, at 12:00, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi Christopher! >>>> >>>> Yea, sorry about that I hadn't done this at first place. Is it ok if I >>>> add this info as ReST metadata in the way like this: >>>> http://kxepal.iriscouch.com/docs/1.3/couchapp/views/joins.html >>>> Raw: >> http://kxepal.iriscouch.com/docs/1.3/.sources/couchapp/views/joins.txt >>>> -- >>>> ,,,^..^,,, >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Christopher Lenz <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>>> Hey Alexander, >>>>> >>>>> I'd be glad to contribute this content to the documentation. >>>>> >>>>> Could you please just make sure to include a link to the original >> post, the date, and my name. It'd be good to make it clear that the post is >> quoted verbatim (something like “The following was originally published by >> Christopher Lenz in late 2007 at <URL>”). I think it's a bit confusing how >> it's included without comment in the preview, since some of it is a bit >> outdated (as Jan already pointed out), and clearly written as a blog post. >>>>> >>>>> Great work on the docs BTW! >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Chris >>>>> >>>>> On 21.08.2013, at 19:08, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hi Christopher! >>>>>> >>>>>> Your article about CouchDB's Joins[1] is very popular, so I'd decided >>>>>> to include it to CouchDB official docs. However, we need to add some >>>>>> notes about his author and content licence. >>>>>> >>>>>> Could you suggest how made this better? >>>>>> >>>>>> [1]: http://www.cmlenz.net/archives/2007/10/couchdb-joins >>>>>> >>>>>> P.S. Hope that you don't mind about such actions from my side (: >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> ,,,^..^,,, >>>>> >>>>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater
