[Live-demo] Liberal licensing of Project Overviews in LiveDVD, do we want this?

Ian Turton ijturton at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 06:52:22 EDT 2011


On 30 June 2011 05:31, Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Simon Cropper
> <scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Project overviews are so small that even if a restrictive license
> would apply, you could still get away with copying it completely as
> sort of citation. We are talking about 2-3 sentences and a list of
> features, which -I guess- in many cases have been at least partly
> copied and/or inspired from/by other sources often not noting any
> license and therefore copyrighted - so if you are so strict about
> licensing I'm not even sure we can publish them ourselves.
>

This sums up my feelings exactly - if the document we are concerned
with is commercially confidential there is no way I can see any has
copied my work so I can't enforce any licence anyway. So I don't
really care, to be honest. The project overviews are so short and
mostly derived from the project web site anyway I don't think it
matters.

I think the CC-BY-SA is right for the quickstarts where I have
actually authored something that took me time and energy but the
overview was mostly copy and paste any way so CC-BY is fine and we
just have to trust people anyway since none of us is going to go to
law over it if we even found out.

Ian


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