[julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials ( https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
Re: [julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
I'm not really sure. The Julia manual end up being MIT sort of by accident just because it's part of the julia repo and the MIT license applies to everything that doesn't have a different license indicated. Some CC license may be better. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, David P. Sanders dpsand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials ( https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
Re: [julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
It seems like a Creative Commons license would be good for this kind of material. There are variants to restrict commercial use, that you wouldn’t get with an MIT license. You can choose your own license terms here: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ -Craig On Dec 17, 2014, at 11:39 AM, David P. Sanders dpsand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials (https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
Re: [julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
My opinion is that as a matter of policy, official documentation for Julia should be under a free/libre license, whether that license is CC or MIT or otherwise. Some of the CC licenses are non-free, for instance those that place restrictions on commercial use. The Software Freedom Law Center (my former employer, though I myself am not a lawyer) has a few paragraphs on choice of license for software documentation here: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-120002.4 For documentation outside the official repositories, of course the choice of license is up to you. Nonetheless, I'd highly encourage you, and anybody writing documentation, to choose a free license when possible. On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 10:23:21 AM UTC-8, Craig Schmidt wrote: It seems like a Creative Commons license would be good for this kind of material. There are variants to restrict commercial use, that you wouldn’t get with an MIT license. You can choose your own license terms here: https://creativecommons.org/choose/ -Craig On Dec 17, 2014, at 11:39 AM, David P. Sanders dpsa...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials ( https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
Re: [julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
Wouldn't it be good if at least the code of tutorials is MIT licensed. That way it could be used in the mostly MIT licensed packages without hassle? On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 09:31, Stefan Karpinski ste...@karpinski.org wrote: I'm not really sure. The Julia manual end up being MIT sort of by accident just because it's part of the julia repo and the MIT license applies to everything that doesn't have a different license indicated. Some CC license may be better. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, David P. Sanders dpsand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials ( https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
Re: [julia-users] Which licence to use for tutorial materials
Yes, it seems to me that unless there's a motivation for a different license, it might well be a good idea to make free documentation available under the MIT license, including the examples. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Mauro mauro...@runbox.com wrote: Wouldn't it be good if at least the code of tutorials is MIT licensed. That way it could be used in the mostly MIT licensed packages without hassle? On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 09:31, Stefan Karpinski ste...@karpinski.org wrote: I'm not really sure. The Julia manual end up being MIT sort of by accident just because it's part of the julia repo and the MIT license applies to everything that doesn't have a different license indicated. Some CC license may be better. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:39 AM, David P. Sanders dpsand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to add a licence to my tutorial materials ( https://github.com/dpsanders/scipy_2014_julia) so that people can reuse them. Is the MIT licence suitable for this, or should I be using a Creative Commons one or something else instead? Somehow a tutorial feels different from code. (And I would not particularly want my material to be reused for commercial purposes.) Thanks, David.
