[Dovecot] Wiki license

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 16:01 -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:52 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> > On 2007-12-16 22:43:18 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > > a) GNU Free Documentation License
> > > 
> > > b) Creative Commons (Attribution-Share Alike?)
> > > 
> > > It could also be dual-licensed to both to maximize the distribution
> > > possibilities.
> > 
> > CC Share Alike 3
> > 
> > GFDL has some sucking part about the license when using parts of the
> > documentation.
> 
> I'm not sure if this would matter or not, but... Debian has previously
> said that the CC licenses are not DFSG-free. From what I can see, no
> opinion has been released on the version 3 licenses. See:
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#Debian
> 
> A dual-license of GFDL (without invariant sections) 

Was there something optional, or do you mean I should modify it
myself?.. I remember GFDL wasn't Debian-compatible either earlier.

> Dovecot is MIT & LGPL, so why not choose one of those?

I thought those wouldn't apply well to documentation. Although I suppose
MIT could work.

>  The only
> down-side of an MIT license is that someone could take the work and put
> it into a non-free product. With documentation, the biggest potential
> problem would be someone making a Dovecot book.

Isn't it already possible with GFDL/CC? Although I guess it could
require the book to be under the same license as well.

> If you're not worried about that, really a Public Domain declaration
> should work.

Somehow I don't feel good about giving away my copyrights, even if I
would never do anything useful with them.
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