[postgis-users] [postgis-devel] PostGIS documentation license

[Sandro Santilli]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Paragon Corporation wrote:
> As several have pointed out the PostGIS documentation does not have a
> clearly defined license assigned to it.  This is one of the items on our
> todo to finish off our  OSGeo incubation process. 
> 
> Having it full under GPL like the rest of PostGIS is very unappealing to me.
> 
> I would prefer it be under a fairly unrestricted license such as:
> 
> Creative Common Attribution ShareAlike - something like this:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
> 
> And if people happen to make money off of adaptations, printed copies of it
> etc, more power to them.
> 
> Do others have any issues, concerns, comments, preferences about this?

I'm fine with it.
Btw, I don't think it's much different than GPL.

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