On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:55:50PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On 04/06/2009 01:37 PM, Karsten Wade wrote: > > > In a nutshell, here is why we have not used the CC or GNU FDL in > > Fedora Docs: > > > > * CC has no warranty protection clause. This is important in > > countries such as the US; we put out technical content that could > > blow up someone's computer if they misuse it or we edit it > > incorrectly, we don't want to be liable for that. > > This is incorrect. I suspect you were reading the "English Human > Summary" version of the CC license. For example, see this section from > the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0 license: Ah, I am not up to date on my reading, hadn't noticed the 3.0 had these clauses. > > Regardless of all that, if Red Hat wants to continue using the OPL, > > perhaps Fedora Docs could dual-license content. That way we could > > blend in GNU FDL content from e.g. GNOME, and do it so it doesn't > > actually mix with our dual-licensed content for our OPL-preferring > > downstream. > > Red Hat Legal, while tolerant of our OPL stance, would actually much > prefer it if we went to CC-BY-SA for our docs. I've asked them to double > check that this is acceptable to them, and if so, draft up some wording > around how we would like people to give us attribution (that is the real > weakness in CC-BY-SA). Heh, so it's now Fedora's OPL stance? :) I just always wanted the freest and easiest to work with license. A few years ago Mark Webbink gave me a scale that I published somewhere. In that, using the CC-BY-SA was acceptable where it is commodity technology content and not specifically one of "our products", in this case Fedora the distro, our web apps, etc. I understood this to be for the lack of warranty clause. If that is no longer the case, then I think we should seriously consider adding the CC-BY-SA 3.0 to our usage for Fedora Docs content and probably all Fedora web content. > I would not advocate going with GFDL. More trouble than it is worth. It looks like the FDL 1.3 clauses that allow compatibility with the CC-BY-SA are set to expire in Aug 2009. What does this mean about our ability to pull in and use FDL content? To work with upstreams to relicense or dual-license? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Compatibility_with_CC-BY-SA Thanks Spot, - Karsten -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Community Gardener http://quaid.fedorapeople.org AD0E0C41
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