On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 18:04:47 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > It's time for a new updates to the KDE Licensing Policy > > [...] > Added: > "Content on collaborative edited websites such as wikis must be > licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 > International." > Rationale: we have no policy for wikis but they are very important to > us especially with wikitoLearn so we should add one. Our wikis are > currently CC 3.0+FDL but we should consider moving to CC 4.0 (CC > includes an or later so there's no difficultly in doing this). FDL is > unmaintained and not much used so we can drop this.
I disagree with "little used". What does it mean "unmaintained"? Is the MIT license maintained? I still would keep the dual license. Coming back later can be complicated if impossible. > > Changed: > "Documentation must be licensed under the Creative Commons > Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International" > Rationale: Currently we use GNU FDL but that licence is unmaintained, > little used, problematic due to association with non-free options and > incompatible with the GPL. CC-BY-SA 4 is one way compatible with the > GPL (code can be copied from docs to GPL code). So I suggest moving > new docs to CC. See above. That would make mixing content really complicated, especially when we move from wiki to other formats or vice-versa. So same license in both (dual at most). -- Luigi