IMO we should get rid of this old "The wiki documents (all the documents in the default .xar archive) are distributed under Creative Commons (CC-BY)” runtime message because: * when you install XWiki you end up with that in the footer and most people don't touch (and probably don't really understand) it and we should not choose for them the default license of theire own pages * we already license our page sources under LGPL and I don't see the point in having two licenses
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:23 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9 Nov 2015 at 22:51:41, [email protected] > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> I see at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/License that we say: “The >> wiki documents (all the documents in the default .xar archive) are >> distributed under Creative Commons (CC-BY)”. >> >> However currently all our wiki pages in GitHub (the XML files) are licensed >> under LGPL 2.1 >> >> Do we need to change the license for all those XML files? > > BTW are we sure it would be ok to have files licensed under both LGPL and > CC-BY in our distribution? > > All I could find is to consider those XML files “non-functional data” files > (see "Non-functional Data” in > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html) which > says: > > “ > Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more of an > adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we don't insist > on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It can be included in a > free system distribution as long as its license gives you permission to copy > and redistribute, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. For > example, some game engines released under the GNU GPL have accompanying game > information—a fictional world map, game graphics, and so on—released under > such a verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a free > system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as free, > because it is non-functional. > ” > > One issue is that those XML files not only contain data but also scripts > which I don’t think can be considered “non-functional data”... > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Thanks >> -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
