[Qgis-community-team] Re: CC-by-SA 3+

[Brylie Oxley]

Reasons for adopting the CC - Attribution- ShareAlike include:
* CC-by-SA is similar in spirit to the GNU Public License
* CC-by-SA is specifically mentioned in the Free Documentation License 
as being an alternative (relating to WikiPedia)
* CC-by-SA is the current license for Open Source Geospatial Foundation, 
Wikipedia, Peer to Peer University, Wikiversity, Mozilla wiki, 
OpenStreetMap wiki, etc. so contents from QGIS documents can easily be 
integrated into/adapted from those communities.
* CC-by-SA has the mark that it is "Approved for Free Cultural Works" as 
defined at http://freedomdefined.org
* CC licenses provide machine readable code so that search engines can 
effectively index CC materials.

Alternately, the CC-by license is approved for free cultural works.

Notes:
- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://wikipedia.org
- http://p2pu.org
- http://wikiversity.org
- http://wiki.mozilla.org
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page

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