Source code does not qualify as a "work" under section f of the full CC license, and so it cannot be the license under which code in our repo can be released. However, authors may choose to license their theme art using a CC license while their code is licensed with something ASL compatible.
I think it's worthwhile to note two additional things. First, it's generally accepted that art that uses CC-by license allows the artist to indicate the means by which they must be credited. Doing so may violate other ASL-compatible license clauses. Second, if as a community we allow these multi-license projects into our repo, we should also be specific about which artistic licenses should be allowed, and I would personally prefer a license that allows full re-use without retaining credit. IMO. Owen On Dec 17, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Chris Meller <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
