On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:24:13AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote: > On 06/25/2009 08:37 AM, Chris Tyler wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:58 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > >> The Docs Team has recently reached consensus to change licenses that > >> cover the various full-size guides the team works on, such as the > >> Release Notes and the Installation Guide. Currently the works are > >> under the OPL 1.0, and the intention is to switch to the CC BY SA 3.0. > > > > I agree that CC is a much better choice than OPL. > > > > How do we make this relicensing work? I.e., if contributor X agreed that > > their content could be used under the OPL, how is it that we can just > > take that content and distribute it under a different license? I don't > > remember if the CLA has any wording on this. (Obviously the intention of > > the licenses is very similar, but nonetheless it seems like a murky > > situation. We did have someone withdraw from Fedora and take their toys > > with them when we last made a license change on the the wiki, IIRC). > > Well, basically, we really should ask the contributors to consent to the > relicensing, and get their "written" permission in email. Technically, > these contributions were made under the terms of the CLA, and unless > those folks explicitly stated that their contributions were under the > OPL, Fedora is technically able to relicense those contributions however > we desire. > > I say "technically" a lot there, because I do not want to leverage that. > I think the clear intent of contributors contributing to an OPL licensed > document is that their contributions are under OPL terms. In fact, I > want to remove that loophole in the next revision of the Fedora CLA. > > So, we should just go ahead and get permission from all the contributors > (writers and translators) to relicense their works, and if anyone does > not give permission, we should remove/replace their contribution. > > ~spot That is a large task, Im not sure an email chain would be the best way to handel that, however I am not sure what is. -- Zach Oglesby GPG Key: 1378F79F http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Zoglesby
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