[postgis-devel] Vote On Documentation License

Sandro Santilli strk at keybit.net
Fri Sep 2 11:14:20 PDT 2011


+1 here.

Just a note: GPL does _not_ forbid you to sell the work or derivates..

--strk;

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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