Re: License for text content

[Shane Curcuru]

(Moving general@incubator and dev@community to BCC since this is really 
a legal question about ASF licensing)


tison wrote on 5/1/24 11:25 PM:

Hi,

IIUC, the Apache License 2.0 is mainly to license code and related stuff 
that constructs the final software.


However, projects may also create text content like documents. Is it 
appropriate to use Apache License 2.0 for them (since quite a few terms 
may not be applicable)? Or what licenses shall we use?


The ASF uses the Apache-2.0 license for our projects' own content that 
is put into any releases, immaterial of type of content:


https://apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#faq-docs

Using a single license reduces complexity, and makes it simpler for 
users to understand the issues around re-using ASF products.


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License for text content

[tison]

Hi,

IIUC, the Apache License 2.0 is mainly to license code and related stuff
that constructs the final software.

However, projects may also create text content like documents. Is it
appropriate to use Apache License 2.0 for them (since quite a few terms may
not be applicable)? Or what licenses shall we use?

For example, a website repo can contain both code and docs. In my personal
site, I wrote:

> Code is licensed under Apache-2.0, words and images are licensed under CC
BY 4.0.

But I don't know if we can write the same to a site repo of an ASF project.

Best,
tison.