license/copyright info at beginning of files

2013-03-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
It is common practice to put licensing/copyright info at beginning of files, but that info is missing on few of the files I looked at in pyramid/ directory. Is it not an issue. This question was prompted by my filing https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/939, wondering if it's necessary at all

choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Why choose a non-commercial license[1]? This has the disadvantage of disallowing, for example, Debian to distribute it[2], which would be nice. [1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640780. -- You received this message

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Chris McDonough
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 22:07 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Why choose a non-commercial license[1]? This has the disadvantage of disallowing, for example, Debian to distribute it[2], which would be nice. [1]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ [2]:

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Steve Piercy
On 3/22/13 at 4:32 PM, chr...@plope.com (Chris McDonough) pronounced: On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 22:07 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Why choose a non-commercial license[1]? This has the disadvantage of disallowing, for example, Debian to distribute it[2], which would be nice. [1]:

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Chris McDonough chr...@plope.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 22:07 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Why choose a non-commercial license[1]? This has the disadvantage of disallowing, for example, Debian to distribute it[2], which would be nice. [1]:

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Steve Piercy steve.piercy@gmail.com wrote: On 3/22/13 at 4:32 PM, chr...@plope.com (Chris McDonough) pronounced: On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 22:07 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Why choose a non-commercial license[1]? This has the disadvantage of

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
I'd suggest these 2 strategies: 1. Dual-License the Docs as a choice between Current or the Perl Artistic license. The Artistic license is OSI Debian approved, but neuters most commercial activities ( docs can be on retail CDs , but books would fall under a reasonable copying fee ). 2. split

Re: choice of documentation license

2013-03-22 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Jonathan Vanasco jonat...@findmeon.com wrote: I'd suggest these 2 strategies: 1. Dual-License the Docs as a choice between Current or the Perl Artistic license. The Artistic license is OSI Debian approved, but neuters most commercial activities ( docs can