On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 22:18 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The user guides are dual-licensed under CC-BY and GPL, and the past > > contributors have obviously agreed to those licenses. They have not > > agreed to the Apache license, and most of them cannot be found to ask if > > they agree. We can't just relicense the books under the Apache license. > > > > What you have said tells me that those books cannot be attachments on a > > Apache-OOo wiki page. Is that correct? If so, then we can host them > > elsewhere and link to them from the wiki. > > > > You asked previously about CC-BY. I said that was on the list of > compatible licenses. You never asked about GPL nor did I make a > comment on GPL.
Your note about CC-BY reached me after I sent this note to the list. At the time I wrote the above, I did not have that information. Sorry to add to the noise confusion! > > In any case, do you really mean GPL? Or do you mean GNU Free > Documentation License (GFDL)? Yes, I meant GPL. Here is the copyright statement from a typical user guide chapter: "This document is Copyright © 2005–2011 by its contributors as listed below. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), version 3.0 or later." Derivative works (which would include any Apache-OOo materials based on these books) could therefore be licensed under either GPL or CC-BY, so the GPL license statement could be dropped if that's an issue. > As I mentioned before, the list of compatible licenses are listed here: > > http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a > > CC-BY is fine. Specifically version 2.5: > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ > > Note that CC-BY 3.0 is not listed. But this may just be because no > project as requested it to be reviewed and approved. > > What version are you licensing under? CC-BY 3.0 or later. --Jean
