See the question raised at https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/issues/328.
While gwtproject explicitly licenses all "software and sample code" as under the Apache License 2.0, it appears that we don't have a license specified for the contents of the gwtproject website (https://gwtproject.org, https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/). A case could be made that the content is already licensed as under the same license. It was my understanding that this is discouraged (though at the moment I'm having a hard time seeing why that would be). I can find concrete examples of the Apache Foundation licensing their documentation under the Apache License * https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation * https://github.com/apache/cordova-docs On the other hand, if the Apache license that applies to all code and samples does not apply to the contents, then each author owns their own content directly. I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that (at least in the country in which I reside) content is copyrighted by default, and the author owns that copyright. Additional rights must be granted by the author. If we want to change the license, we need the approval of the authors so far - https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt-site/graphs/contributors. Anyone who doesn't approve would need to have their content removed, if we decide to change. Are we sufficiently clear that all content is Apache licensed, including the website documentation? Is there a good reason to consider a different license instead? Should we seek confirmation from any authors of substantial amounts of content that their content falls under the license we choose? My suggestion is to clarify that all content is under the Apache License, and see a confirmation from any author who wrote more than ~5 lines of content. If we think we are already clear that all content is under that license, then we should state that in an up front way, such as setting the "license" metadata of the gwt-site repo, and adding a LICENSE file. Thoughts, suggestions, pointers to how other projects have handled this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/45f473b5-4d2d-4016-b76d-29210128de27n%40googlegroups.com.
