[Geomoose-users] Incubation Checklist (Please review)

[Jim Klassen]

On Sep 27, 2012, at 1:38 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Yep this is where it is annoying, while that license can cover your RST files (used to generate the docs) - how do you want people to treat the *content* of those pages when you publish them on the website?
> 
> Right now there is a © at the bottom, but since there is no license on how people can use the page …. people can "cite" or "quote" the page and say where they got the link from? But you are not granting them rights to combine the content with say training course materials or something?
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> Note: There is no *need* to provide a documentation license, it is just we should be clear that there is not one.
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> For example here is the GeoTools license page, I apologise if it is confusing as with such an old project the story changed over time.
> - http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/welcome/license.html

Presuming we consider the RST source to be covered under the GeoMoose/MIT like license, doesn't that mean that anyone can basically take the RST files and do just about whatever with them including transform them into a different format (to HTML/PDF/translate into different languages/etc.) and/or incorporate them in another work?  Wouldn't making the docs CCby(CA) actually be more restrictive than we have now?  I've never personally understood why documentation licenses are a different animal than code licenses.

I think the bigger question is what is the license/copyright of the content on the wiki? (http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) In part because we tend to use the wiki as a bit of a melting pot before incorporating the ideas into the "official" website.

Jim
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