I noticed recently that Factor's license at http://factorcode.org/license.txt doesn't really apply to the documentation. It only mentions the source code, and the fact that, in compiled form, the license should be included in documentation. So our documentation is unlicensed, meaning that we have full rights to do whatever we want with it, but other people can't be guaranteed to do what they want with it.
So there are three solutions. The first is to modify the existing license to mention the documentation, under basically the same terms. But this would require contacting everyone who has contributed to Factor, some of whom (Adam, Mackenzie) aren't around anymore. The second solution is to make a very similar, but separate license for the documentation. A possible model to go by is the FreeBSD documentation license (http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html), which is basically the BSD license but with the word "documentation" in it. It retains the clause about compiled documentation, which I think is still relevant to Factor because docs which are loaded into the image are basically in a "compiled" form. This would only require contacting the documentation authors, which are all still around, as far as I know. The third option is using the Creative Commons Attribution License, which could be legally more secure and, but I don't like all the legalese involved. It seems much too complicated. This, too, would only require the documentation authors to be contacted. So, what do you guys think? This may seem unnecessary, but it needs to be clear to all future users of Factor that the documentation is free. And we need to do this before the project gets any bigger. Daniel Ehrenberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
