I'm in favor of Rintze's suggestion, but wonder: what would the BY clause
mean here? It's not exactly creative work subject to copyright.
On May 13, 2011 1:49 PM, "Rintze Zelle" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:19 AM, Robert Knight
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I think it might be better to simply provide a license or, if
>> absolutely necessary, a choice of licenses and require that all styles
>> in the repository use that license(s) - which I think is what already
>> happens in the Zotero style repository? In the case of the creative
>> commons licenses, there are already nice simple web pages which
>> explain the conditions of a particular license.
>>
>
> Revisiting the topic of licensing of CSL styles: I was wondering if it
would
> make sense (and would be legally sound) to require that any styles hosted
at
> https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles should be licensed under
> CC-BY-SA. Styles with a different license wouldn't be accepted, and any
> styles submitted for inclusion in the repository would automatically
receive
> this license if no license is set. CC-BY-SA is by far the most common
> license used (there are 2 LGPL styles, 1 GPL style (!, immunity.csl) and
> some styles without licenses), and settling on a single license would make
> it far easier to communicate the licensing requirements to any prospective
> adopters of CSL.
>
> In related news, I recently updated the CSL schema to disallow the
cs:rights
> element in cs:info for dependent styles, as I think we shouldn't bother
with
> licensing those (none of the existing dependent styles include a cs:rights
> element).
>
> Rintze
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