On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 21:45 +0200, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Am Sonntag, 15. Mai 2011, um 15:08:12 schrieb davidMbrooke: -snip- > > > > With specific reference to the Wiki, there is currently no statement > > > > about the license which applies to the Wiki text itself. For my own > > > > contributions I would prefer to apply the "Creative Commons > > > > Attribution-ShareAlike > > > > License" (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) which is what > > > > Wikipedia uses. > > > > However there is some text imported from the previous > > > > DocBook documentation which may use a different license. > > > > > > I'm not aware that any docbook content has been written with a special > > > license in mind. Is it necessary to ask the original authors > > > individually? > > > > > > Anyway I think the license sound good and reasonable for the wiki > > > content, at least as far as I'm concerned. > > > > I will review the DocBook source for any license statements, but I > > propose to declare that the cc-by-sa license applies to the Wiki content > > if there are no objections. > > No need to inverstigate the docbook license IMHO. My question was if we have > to ask those who has written the docbook-based contents individually for > permission (Arne, Martin, Jacques, EricS, ETitl, Luis et al)...? > As I said we've never discussed license issues before, and I'm confident > they'll agree, if we add the license to the wiki you proposed - but better be > safe than then sorry.
KP & David, We've discussed documentation licensing in the past too. I think most of our current documentation was released into the public domain. http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=leaf-devel%40lists.sourceforge.net&q=documentation+license > Hopefully they will reply to this thread - I'll try to contact anyone left > and > ask. -- Mike Noyes http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes http://www.google.com/profiles/mhnoyes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
