We've tossed around the idea of using something other than the GFDL for documentation before. Changing licenses for existing documentation is a huge pain, and not worth the effort.
Our current documentation is mostly out of date. Whatever is up to date will likely not stay that way for Gnome 3. And we're investigating Mallard, which involves an entirely new way of approaching documentation. All of these things combined mean that the effort of doing new documents from scratch is minimal compared to what we'd need to do to build off of our current documentation. This means we can choose a new license. Right now. Without crafting our own license (which I think we should avoid), we have three options: 1) Dual-license GFDL and CC-SA 2) Keep GFDL 3) Switch to CC-SA Note that various groups, including Debian, objected to certain portions of the version 2 CC licenses. These issues have apparently been cleared up. Also note that all CC licenses now have the attribution clause, so what I'm referring to as CC-SA is effectively CC-BY-SA. I don't really feel like rehashing all of the problems we've had with the GFDL, but I'll go into it if anybody is really interested. Dual-licensing would give the most freedom to distributors while still retaining copyleft. On the other hand, it makes it more difficult for us to use content from other sources. There is also the issue of licensing code samples found in documentation. Luis Villa and I discussed the issue. He initially recommended licensing code samples under the CC0 license. After talking to the SFLC, however, he forwarded this recommendation to me: "This documentation is licensed under [licenses]. As a special exception, the copyright holders give you permission to copy, modify, and distribute the example code contained in this documentation under the terms of your choosing, without restriction." I'd like to get people's thoughts on licenses. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
