Seems fair to me.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]>wrote:

> Howdy, hakkers!
>
> Here's an odd, but important question:
>
> What license is SYNHAK available under?
>
> I'm not referring to using synhak, but I'm talking about the very source
> code
> of synhak: our bylaws, infrastructure scripts, documents, etc.
>
> Our wiki's contents have been available under the GNU Free Documentation
> License since day one and Phong is licensed under the AGPL-3.0.
>
> Looking at our documents repo[1], there have been 99 commits. Of those 99,
> 94
> were mine which I feel gives me the right to decide a license for those.
> Same
> story with the bylaws[2] though those were more collaboratively written
> and a
> relicensing would need a board vote, in my opinion.
>
> I'd hate for our documents to have a license that isn't in the spirit of
> how
> our bylaws are licensed, so I don't want to license my contributions quite
> yet.
>
> I suggest a copyleft license, such as CC BY-SA 3.0:
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US
>
> My rational for wanting a copyleft license is to ensure that any
> organization
> that derives from our bylaws grants their members the right to create a
> derivative (through derivative bylaws) if they are not satisfied and wish
> to
> separate. It ensures that future derivatives are not restricted from
> including
> significant improvements to governance procedures while bringing their own
> to
> the table, and provides a mechanism to ensure that future groups can enjoy
> the
> same system of self governance that we have.
>
> I don't think anyone would care if our ansible repository went MIT. There
> isn't anything novel in our infrastructure setup, and any scripts of
> significant value are covered by phong's AGPL.
>
>
> [1]https://github.com/SYNHAK/synhak-documents
> [2]https://github.com/SYNHAK/synhak-bylaws
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