[postgis-devel] Vote On Documentation License

[Paul Ramsey]

+1 Paul

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Chris Hodgson <chodgson at refractions.net> wrote:
> Regina brought up the issue of the documentation license earlier on both the
> -devel and -users lists. There was very little discussion on the issue at
> hand, other than the users list breaking out into a general licensing
> discussion relating more to postgis as a whole than specifically to the
> documentation. Given that there were no real naysayers (certainly none that
> I know of contributing to the documentation)....
>
> I call the PSC to vote on designating the license for the PostGIS
> documentation to be the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> I believe this license is just slightly more liberal than the GPL in that it
> doesn't not restrict people from selling the work or its derivatives, but it
> also adds the restriction that any derivatives must include attribution,
> which I think we intend to be attributed to "The PostGIS Project and its
> Contributors" or something similar. This is also the license which wikipedia
> content is under, and is very similar to both the FreeBSD Documentation
> License and the GNU Free Documentation License.
>
> Given the nature of this decision I'd like to see a unanimous +1 from all
> PSC members, and also anyone who has contributed significantly to the
> documentation and is unhappy with the license should let us know. Any -1's
> please put forward your alternative license suggestion and your reasoning.
>
> Once we agree on this, I suggest that Regina go forward with adding a copy
> of the license to the documentation and also adding the appropriate
> references to the license into the documentation (both source code and the
> final produced HTML/PDF outputs).
>
> I'll start with my +1.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
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