On 18.10.2018 20:40, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 06.09.2018 15:25, Branko Čibej wrote: >> 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. > > I didn't quite forget about this: LEGAL-421
The answer to this question appears to be that we should relicense the book before importing it into our repository. I suppose that means the original authors, and any other major contributors, should create a Software Grant. -- Brane
