On 9 Nov 2015 at 22:51:41, [email protected] ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote:
> Hi devs, > > I see at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/License that we say: “The > wiki documents (all the documents in the default .xar archive) are > distributed under Creative Commons (CC-BY)”. > > However currently all our wiki pages in GitHub (the XML files) are licensed > under LGPL 2.1 > > Do we need to change the license for all those XML files? BTW are we sure it would be ok to have files licensed under both LGPL and CC-BY in our distribution? All I could find is to consider those XML files “non-functional data” files (see "Non-functional Data” in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html) which says: “ Data that isn't functional, that doesn't do a practical job, is more of an adornment to the system's software than a part of it. Thus, we don't insist on the free license criteria for non-functional data. It can be included in a free system distribution as long as its license gives you permission to copy and redistribute, both for commercial and non-commercial purposes. For example, some game engines released under the GNU GPL have accompanying game information—a fictional world map, game graphics, and so on—released under such a verbatim-distribution license. This kind of data can be part of a free system distribution, even though its license does not qualify as free, because it is non-functional. ” One issue is that those XML files not only contain data but also scripts which I don’t think can be considered “non-functional data”... WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > Thanks > -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
