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for example, someone in an organisation finds an issue whilst reading a copy; they could check the original for answers. this becomes especially useful if the source was improved subsequently to the copy being made.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> UK <uk-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Ian Turton <ijturton@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 08 July 2019 16:51:59<br>
<b>To:</b> Jo Cook<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSGeo-UK] Software documentation licensing</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I would go with CC-BY as it seems to be a basic courtesy to reference who wrote the docs you are using. GeoServer currently uses that for it's docs with no issues (other than users refusing to read them), GeoTools seems not mention a licence
for the docs but the code samples are explicitly PD so people can cut and paste them into their code with no issues, but to be honest I can't see why CC-BY would be an issue there (I always add a comment about where I grabbed a code snippet from).
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 at 16:32, Jo Cook <<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Hi All,<br>
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I'm after a wide spread of opinions about licensing of documentation<br>
for the Google Season of Docs project that I'm working with OSGeo on.<br>
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We're discussing which Creative Commons license we should use for<br>
documentation templates. The general opinion is split between CC-0<br>
(<a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/</a>), which effectively equates<br>
to Public Domain, and CC-By<br>
(<a href="https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/licensing-examples/#by" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-types-examples/licensing-examples/#by</a>)<br>
which requires Attribution.<br>
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Hypothetically, can anyone think of any scenarios where a commercial<br>
company would not want to use either of these, or would choose one or<br>
the other?<br>
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No need to reply-all on this if you don't want, but if anyone at all<br>
has any opinion on the matter or has come across documentation<br>
licensing issues before, I'd love to hear about it. The more specific<br>
the better, please!<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Jo<br>
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