On 06.09.2018 15:25, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 06.09.2018 15:10, C. Michael Pilato wrote: >> On 09/05/2018 04:49 PM, Mark Phippard wrote: >>> Assuming the PMC wanted it, is it possible for the book to be >>> contributed to this project and hosted in the Apache SVN repository? >>> Many people seem to post questions and issues in these mailing lists >>> as if it is part of the project anyway so maybe we ought to just >>> make this the reality. I guess what I am saying is, before we gauge >>> opinion on whether we want to bring this into the project, my >>> question is whether there are any blockers that prevent this on the >>> book side from being an option? Such as copyright or licensing >>> issues that make it not possible. It feels like this has been >>> discussed in the past and there were reasons it was kept separate >>> from the project even after the publishing of the book by O'Reilly >>> was in the past, but I no longer recall them. >> Honestly, I think the book belongs with the PMC. It is easy to imagine a >> day when a developer is expected to provide at least rudimentary >> documentation updates in the same commit that carries his or her new >> feature or behavioral change. >> >> The book carries a cc-by-2.0 license, with Ben, Fitz and myself named as >> the copyright holders. I suspect that in order to be absorbed by the >> PMC, that licensing would have to change to an Apache License. Does that >> mean that the three primary authors would need to officially re-license >> it somehow? Or maybe it's a software grant to the ASF (rather like >> Subversion itself was)? > We'd have to ask legal@ but I'd be surprised if we'd be required to > re-license the book; it's not code, and the Apache license isn't really > suitable. Also we wouldn't really be making releases of it, just updates > on the web.
I didn't quite forget about this: LEGAL-421 -- Brane