Adding questions about licensing to the FAQ would be a good idea. This could serve as a short list of the main points that would be easier to commnicate.
Would someone on the list be able to draft 3 or 4 questions that seem to be most important about licensing for project owners and then I can work with the lawyers on the board to get official answers to each? Thanks, David > What about writing a short list of "what you can do and what you > can't do"? > The communication deficiency caused by too long text is very common. > This is why I initially chose a Creative Commons license for my > project. > The Creative Commons team has made a great job in writing a brief > description of what their licenses allow and deny. This helps people > greatly, since in most cases it allow people to know quite instantly > if > the program is suitable for them. Plus, by specifying that such a > short > list doesn't free the user from reading the full license text, you'll > make clear that the text has the only scope of "covering the most > important concepts". > > > I don't know if I expressed myself correctly, so I'll make an > example: > > > --- > The license you'll have to adopt for your extension, will allow other > users to: > 1. use the extension > 2. view the sourcecode > 3. make derived projects, using your sourcecode as the base > > Plus, remember that this small list is not considering many important > things. We recommend reading the full license text at the URL: > <license url> > --- > > This is short enough to be placed inside an e-mail without being > ignored... > > > > > > Michael Johnston wrote: > > > too much text in an email will be skipped over as well. > > > > it's lose lose. > > _______________________________________________ > > Project_owners mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > > > > _______________________________________________ > Project_owners mailing list > [email protected] > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners > _______________________________________________ Project_owners mailing list [email protected] http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/project_owners
