[Qgis-psc] License for new QGIS Wiki

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Sat Apr 18 15:38:53 PDT 2009


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Hi

Otto Dassau wrote:
> 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"

Yes I put it under FDL and will probably put the videos under CC-BY-SA
3.0 as you have done for online content. I mainly asked because if the
CC-BY-SA license is a good fit for the manual too it would simplify
things a little. Otherwise what you say makes good sense.


> 
> 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.

Sounds good!

Regards

Tim


> 
>  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:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-Community-voting-on-change-of-licence--
>> /news/113061
>>> 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
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