On 06.09.2018 15:10, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > On 09/05/2018 04:49 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: >> Assuming the PMC wanted it, is it possible for the book to be >> contributed to this project and hosted in the Apache SVN repository? >> Many people seem to post questions and issues in these mailing lists >> as if it is part of the project anyway so maybe we ought to just >> make this the reality. I guess what I am saying is, before we gauge >> opinion on whether we want to bring this into the project, my >> question is whether there are any blockers that prevent this on the >> book side from being an option? Such as copyright or licensing >> issues that make it not possible. It feels like this has been >> discussed in the past and there were reasons it was kept separate >> from the project even after the publishing of the book by O'Reilly >> was in the past, but I no longer recall them. > > Honestly, I think the book belongs with the PMC. It is easy to imagine a > day when a developer is expected to provide at least rudimentary > documentation updates in the same commit that carries his or her new > feature or behavioral change. > > The book carries a cc-by-2.0 license, with Ben, Fitz and myself named as > the copyright holders. I suspect that in order to be absorbed by the > PMC, that licensing would have to change to an Apache License. Does that > mean that the three primary authors would need to officially re-license > it somehow? Or maybe it's a software grant to the ASF (rather like > Subversion itself was)?
We'd have to ask legal@ but I'd be surprised if we'd be required to re-license the book; it's not code, and the Apache license isn't really suitable. Also we wouldn't really be making releases of it, just updates on the web. -- Brane
