On 28 Oct 2005, at 17:31, Dennis Brown wrote:
Now that RunRev has committed to create and maintain a Rev Docs
Wiki, I think all our efforts should be funneled into giving them
our full support for this. I would certainly want them to get all
the good input available from this list.
Yes - it would be super (as they say in German out here).
However I for one would not really want to contribute to a
copyrighted company documentation project without being paid - only
if the material was released under an Creative Commons style license
which others could use as freely as i gave it. This is less of an
issue for me for documentation of the Rev IDE - however for community
contributions or commercial plugins from other companies within the
community?
Even more to the point is the sharing of code resources -. controls,
groups, libraries and individual handlers. In other words RunRev
needs to sort out a proper open content policy for not only
documentation, but code, icons - whatever. A public statement of
intent along these lines would be warmly welcomed, I am sure, and
would shut a lot of people up :)
Without this - I would have to assume they still have a lot of
thinking to do and figure out how this gels with their existing
business plans - that sort of discussion can take months and is
easily dropped amidst other business priorities.
So RunRev:
- What is your official position on supporting open source or
public domain content on or off your servers?
- Are these contributions to be made accessible from within the
RunRev IDE?
- What parts or extensions to the IDE, the services, or the
documentation you provide are to be under open licenses?
- If high quality user created contributions - lets say
documentation - comes forward under an open license - how do you plan
to release it or integrate it with your existing documentation
without breaking the terms of the license?
- Do you wish to recommend that the community uses public domain
style licences - some may object? Or would you prefer a dual
licensing strategy allowing you to include this material within a
commercial product?
Here's hoping.
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