I'm not a lawyer, so the following comments are my personal opinion and may be wrong!
But I did invest quite some time into the licensing topic with TW. ... I did contribute and modify the TW CLA, which is based on *Harmony Project Templates <http://www.harmonyagreements.org>.* On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 5:42:15 AM UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > One issue that bubbled to the surface was that of licensing - I don't know > about you but I basically consider everything I create to be issued into > the world cc-by-sa by default but I don't usually bother to tell anyone in > a way that they can easily check. > Everyone who signed the TW CLA <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/blob/master/licenses/cla-individual.md> is already bound to 2 licenses for core contributions. BSD-3-cause <https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause> for the core code and core plugins and CC-BY <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> for documentation related to the core and core plugins. The TW CLA does not include 3rd party plugins and their documentation. > Do you think we should adopt a convention for easily marking our wikis so > that other people know what we're happy with? > Yes, and I think we already do. > I was heartened to find cc-by-sa on a few people's work here and I would > really love to behave as though everything in the community carries this > license without really bothering to check, but then it's only fair to give > people an easy way to indicate that they are //not// cool with it. > Creative Commons dot org <https://creativecommons.org/choose/> is a workbench to create licenses form very restrictive to very open. IMO cc-by is very similar to MIT <https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT> or BSD, since it allows every usage. You just need to mention the original author.. cc-by-sa is a moderately restrictive version in the cc family, because of the SA (share alike) which disallows commercial use, if the initial version if free of charge. The core CC-BY is there for a reason, because TWclassic and TW5 software has always been BSD, which allows commercial use. So the core docs needed a similarly open license. > > And then... thinking further down this particular rabbit-hole raises the > question of whether, in fact, individual tiddlers ought to be marked with > licensing information? > That's possible and we do it already with plugins, which are "packed" tiddlers that contain several other tiddlers. ... Every plugin author is free to use, whatever license fits for him/her. ... IMO In our days the used license is mainly responsible for adoption. Having the right set of licenses in the javascript ecosystem imo is important. See: https://github.com/almende/vis/issues/285#issuecomment-60355290 The visjs library changed their license and removed a component, that didn't fit, because of our (my) intervention. ... Also see: http://visjs.org/blog.html section: "A look back on vis.js" (you need to scroll down a bit) > One can imagine it would be useful, for example, to set licensing along > with authorship for tiddlers that I create myself, but allow for different > settings in, say, tiddlyclip when I'm bringing over web-content. Also, at > federation, if you're bringing content from my wiki, it should probably > come with licensing info attached. > As I wrote. It is possible to add a license to every tiddler. ... but YOU the author needs to manage those licenses, which imo will be close to impossible if you want to have a "per tiddler - per usecase" license. IMO there is one very important thing with licenses. .... - Start with a restrictive license - Change it into the "free" direction, as it fits. eg : You can start with a very restrictive license eg: CC-BY-NC-ND <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/> and loosen it afterwards. The other way around is _not_ possible! Everyone which has the eg: CC-BY version is allowed to use and modify that one. have fun! mario -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e0ec6e11-e7c3-4a6e-99a4-f919be618b10%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
