Two better links:
CC-by-sa:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
GFDL:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
Brgds,
Viktor
On 2009.04.28., at 10:13, Viktor Szakáts wrote:
I did some research and considering that ChangeLog counts as
documentation (not code), I've found the following option for
proper copyright protection for these elements of Harbour:
- Creative Commons: cc-by-sa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_licenses
- FSF GFDL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
Both require credits to be given (attribution), cc-by-sa is also
compatible with Debian folks AFAICS.
IMO we should protect *all* our docs with such license, this
includes uppercased files in root and docs/man dirs. I'd prefer
the Creative Commons license as it's much more known than
GFDL, but please comment, I'm not a lawyer.
Brgds,
Viktor
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Phil Barnett <[email protected]> wrote:
Szakáts Viktor wrote:
Hi Phil,
/* Copyright notice:
All text in this file holds the copyright of respective authors
seen in
the entry headers if not indicated otherwise. Copying or other
forms of
usage is only permitted while giving credit to author including his/
her
full name, plus the text "Harbour Project" or "Harbour". In all other
cases, usage requires explicit permission from author. Exception:
Example
code falls under the standard Harbour license found in COPYING.
*/
---
Before you do this, please pass it in front of the FSF and ask them
if it is acceptable to maintain the GPL status. Also, I believe you
can only change the license terms of code that contains your
copyright.
This only applies to text in ChangeLog, and specifically
states that everyone is aquiring this copyright note for
his/her own entries, so I'm not changing terms for anyone
else's work here. If this seems to be a problem I will
modify the text to apply only to my own entries.
I'd appreciate if someone could test this against FSF, but
for me this'd take too much time, so I probably won't be
able to do it.
All you have to do is to email it to them and ask them if it will
change the terms of our license. I believe it does and should not be
done until the FSF says it's ok. Adding this anywhere in the project
might negate our GPL protection. That would be bad.
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