The Fedora Project is using Creative Commons licensing for its documentation (as do Wikipedia and the Gnome project). See: http://lwn.net/Articles/355546/
Cheers, -- Karen G. Schneider On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Karen Collier <[email protected]>wrote: > As you may already be aware, the Evergreen Documentation Interest Group is > working toward creating a set of "Official" community driven documentation > for Evergreen, using the DocBook standard to produce both HTML and PDF > versions, as well as distributing DocBook XML files for customization > purposes. > > We've been discussing licensing issues for this documentation effort, but > wanted to get input on this important issue from the larger Evergreen > community. Specifically, we're trying to decide which license or licenses > to apply to our documentation efforts. It seems the general feeling is that > we'd like a copyleft license, but which one remains to be determined. > > The candidates we've considered include Creative Commons Share-Alike > (CCSA), GNU Free Documentation License (FDL), and the GNU General Public > License (GPL). We've heard from various sources that the CCSA and the FDL > are not compatible with the GPL (under which the Evergreen Software is > licensed), which would seem to make them unusable for our purposes. Do you > agree or disagree with this conclusion? > > The GNU GPL would seem to be compatible with itself, but it's my > understanding that it is intended for use with software, not documentation. > But perhaps it could be used for our documentation anyway? > > So... thoughts from the community? What licenses do other open source > projects you know of use for their documentation? What license(s) do you > think we should license Evergreen documentation under, and why? > > Any input would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Karen Collier > Evergreen Documentation Interest Group Co-Facilitator > > -- > Karen Collier > Public Services Librarian > Kent County Public Library > 408 High Street > Chestertown, MD 21620 > 410-778-3636 >
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