[Qgis-psc] License for new QGIS Wiki

[Otto Dassau]

Hi, 

I want to make the next step to find suitable licenses for QGIS internet
portals and the manuals. Therefore I would like to have a small voting:

a) QGIS blog and website to be generally licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 as long
as it is not explicitely stated differently. I don't think it makes any
sense to license a forum or a bug tracker. 

b) The "User Guide" as a typical Software documentation goes under GNU FDL. 

c) The "Coding and Compilation Guide" will be GNU GPL. So it will be handled
like the QGIS sources.

After that I would ask Bernhard Reiter from the FSFE again, if he sees any
problems with our solution. And I think at least for the blog, we will have to
ask several contributors, if they agree to put their materials under CC-BY-SA
3.0.

regards,
 Otto

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:38:53 +0200
Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

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> Hi
> 
> Otto Dassau wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> > 
> > here are my ideas at the moment. But I will read more about it to see if I
> > my ideas make sense at all :).
> > 
> > a) I would suggest to have the wiki, blog and website content licensed under
> > CC-BY-SA 3.0 [1], as long as it is not explicitely stated different. For
> > example
> > when we provide links to the software or the PDF documentations, then we
> > would
> > add a hint that these materials are licensed under XY etc.
> > 
> > b) The User Guide and later the DLA material for GIS beginners could be FDL
> > 1.3.
> > [2] I saw you already put tje DLA stuff under FDL - right? I also think FDL
> > fits
> > well for this kind of material and as Bernhard Reiter from FSFE also said:
> > "a
> > good choice for separate, independent documentation"
> 
> Yes I put it under FDL and will probably put the videos under CC-BY-SA
> 3.0 as you have done for online content. I mainly asked because if the
> CC-BY-SA license is a good fit for the manual too it would simplify
> things a little. Otherwise what you say makes good sense.
> 
> 
> > 
> > c) The CODING and INSTALL texts from the QGIS sources, that we convert and
use
> > within the "Compiliation and Coding Guide" could/should be published as GNU
GPL
> > [3], because it is part of the QGIS GPL sources.
> 
> Sounds good!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> > 
> >  regards,
> >   Otto
> > 
> > [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
> > [2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
> > [3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
> > 
> > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:43:14 +0200
> > Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> > 
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> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Otto Dassau wrote:
> >>> Hi, 
> >>>
> >>> today I changed the dafaut FDL license of the new mediawiki (QGIS wiki)
> >>> installation to CC-BY-SA 3.0. I did that after reading following threads:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
http://www.h-online.com/open/Wikipedia-Community-voting-on-change-of-licence--
> >> /news/113061
> >>> AFAIK osgeo wiki is CC-BY-SA as well. I hope this also makes sense for
you,
> >>> so we have found an appropriate license for the wiki. If not, let me know.

> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>>  Otto
> >>> _______________________________________________
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> >>> Qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org
> >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc
> >>>
> >> Sounds good - can we settle on this for the manual too?
> >>
> >> +1
> >>
> >> Regards
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> > 
> 
> 
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