I was creating the list of default licenses to include in the plugin directory and had a question for the general community.
Currently the wiki claims that the only plugins we accept in the habari-extras repository are those with an ASL-compatbile license. We reference the Apache Software Foundation's page on Third-Party Licensing [1], which contains a brief list of licenses that the ASF will accept for inclusion in Apache Foundation projects: BSD, MIT, W3C, as well as several I've never seen used. My question is... what about Creative Commons licenses? None of the pages I've seen about open source licenses have mentioned any of the CC licenses, but the CC Attribution license [2] would seem to qualify. It requires that you supply attribution to your source (ie: include the license) but not that derivatives be shared (which would be the "viral" part of the GPL), nor restrict commercial applications. For reference, I'm currently including: - Apache License 2.0 - BSD - MIT - W3C - CC0 (Public Domain / totally free) [3] [1]: http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html [2]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ [3]: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
