[Qgis-developer] License question

[Carson Farmer]

Thanks pete.

Let me know what you guys decide. If it is possible to use your docs, 
this will likely be the best plugin documentation we have! I would like 
to see more plugins with this level of detail... so hopefully it's all A 
OK, and we can use this as a model for future plugin docs...

Carson
> Carson,
>
> We are happy to change the license as needed. The CC license is mostly 
> a holdover from the exercises that were originally written and then 
> retooled into the more generic "documentation", and I don't think 
> anyone thought too much about the implication of its use. But, let me 
> chat it over with the folks who did the exercise and docs.
>
> The link JJL sent is quite handy.
>
> -pete
>
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>> Carson Farmer wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
>>> License is compatible with the GPL? I'm trying to put together
>>> documentation for the eVis plugin in the new manual, and there is a
>>> comprehensive manual on the Evis website, released under the CCASA 3.0
>>> license. Can I use the material posted here?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Carson
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> That I don't know, but I would suggest to simply ask Peter Ersts et al
>> to dual license the documentation as GPLD if needed - I think this is
>> allowed and most likely they would be agreeable to it.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> - --
>>   
>


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