[Qgis-community-team] Manuals: licence of data and text

[Tim Sutton]

Hi




On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>wrote:

> On 04/17/2014 01:47 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > I have not found a licence file in the Documentation: have we one? Where
> > is it? Is it the same for text and for data?
>
> Hi Paolo,
>
> in the footer of website and docs we state:
> If not stated otherwise, all content is licensed under Creative Commons
> Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence (CC BY-SA)
> with is a link to:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
>
> see
> http://qgis.org/en/docs/index.html
>
> not sure if this also counts for the data though.
>
> if we want to make this more explicit, please add a license file to the
> zips.
>

Note also that we would like to change the license of the training manual
to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (CCBY) as in come contexts
(particularly universities) they consider their use 'commercial' and we
want to enable university folks to use these resources freely.

Regards

Tim



>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
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