[Dovecot] Wiki license
Any suggestions as to what license to use for wiki.dovecot.org?
I should have specified this a long time ago, but luckily(?) most of the content is written by me, so I don't think there are going to be problems.
The main choices are:
a) GNU Free Documentation License
b) Creative Commons (Attribution-Share Alike?)
It could also be dual-licensed to both to maximize the distribution possibilities.
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:52 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
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) and CC SA 3 should be okay with Debian, though. (I'm not a DD and am not speaking for the project.)
Dovecot is MIT & LGPL, so why not choose one of those? 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.
If you're not worried about that, really a Public Domain declaration should work. Here's what Wikipedia uses: This [content] has been released into the public domain by its author, [NAME]. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: [NAME] grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
Richard
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 16:01 -0600, Richard Laager wrote:
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.
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.
participants (4)
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Charles Marcus
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Marcus Rueckert
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Richard Laager
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Timo Sirainen