[Qgis-psc] License for new QGIS Wiki

[Otto Dassau]

Hi Tim,

here are my ideas at the moment. But I will read more about it to see if I my
ideas make sense at all :).

a) I would suggest to have the wiki, blog and website content licensed under
CC-BY-SA 3.0 [1], as long as it is not explicitely stated different. For example
when we provide links to the software or the PDF documentations, then we would
add a hint that these materials are licensed under XY etc.

b) The User Guide and later the DLA material for GIS beginners could be FDL 1.3.
[2] I saw you already put tje DLA stuff under FDL - right? I also think FDL fits
well for this kind of material and as Bernhard Reiter from FSFE also said: "a
good choice for separate, independent documentation"

c) The CODING and INSTALL texts from the QGIS sources, that we convert and use
within the "Compiliation and Coding Guide" could/should be published as GNU GPL
[3], because it is part of the QGIS GPL sources.

 regards,
  Otto

[1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
[3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:43:14 +0200
Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

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> Hi
> 
> Otto Dassau wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > today I changed the dafaut FDL license of the new mediawiki (QGIS wiki)
> > installation to CC-BY-SA 3.0. I did that after reading following threads:
> > 
> >
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> http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-Community-voting-on-change-of-licence--
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> > AFAIK osgeo wiki is CC-BY-SA as well. I hope this also makes sense for you,
> > so we have found an appropriate license for the wiki. If not, let me know. 
> > 
> > regards,
> >  Otto
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> 
> Sounds good - can we settle on this for the manual too?
> 
> +1
> 
> Regards