[postgis-devel] Vote On Documentation License

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 01/09/11 18:43, Chris Hodgson wrote:

> Regina brought up the issue of the documentation license earlier on both
> the -devel and -users lists. There was very little discussion on the
> issue at hand, other than the users list breaking out into a general
> licensing discussion relating more to postgis as a whole than
> specifically to the documentation. Given that there were no real
> naysayers (certainly none that I know of contributing to the
> documentation)....
>
> I call the PSC to vote on designating the license for the PostGIS
> documentation to be the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> I believe this license is just slightly more liberal than the GPL in
> that it doesn't not restrict people from selling the work or its
> derivatives, but it also adds the restriction that any derivatives must
> include attribution, which I think we intend to be attributed to "The
> PostGIS Project and its Contributors" or something similar. This is also
> the license which wikipedia content is under, and is very similar to
> both the FreeBSD Documentation License and the GNU Free Documentation
> License.
>
> Given the nature of this decision I'd like to see a unanimous +1 from
> all PSC members, and also anyone who has contributed significantly to
> the documentation and is unhappy with the license should let us know.
> Any -1's please put forward your alternative license suggestion and your
> reasoning.
>
> Once we agree on this, I suggest that Regina go forward with adding a
> copy of the license to the documentation and also adding the appropriate
> references to the license into the documentation (both source code and
> the final produced HTML/PDF outputs).
>
> I'll start with my +1.

+1 from me too.


ATB,

Mark.

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