discuss: new documentation license
Subject:
Re: new documentation license
From:
Mary Gardiner ####@####.####
Date:
25 Nov 2003 02:40:55 -0000
Message-Id: <20031125024044.GC26313@titus.home.puzzling.org>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 12:04 11/24/2003, doug jensen wrote:
> >License unification would be wonderful. If it doesn't work out,
> >fifty-one licenses will be ok too.
>
> True. One could also have a "McDonald's" license, where the main thing
> is unified and where there are one or two additional options
> (supersize fries, the toy of the month, etc.) which authors can
> individually select. Using the same license with a specific set of
> additional licenses is much more flexible but also much easier to deal
> with (keeping in mind the 51 variations mentioned).
This is something like the Creative Commons "which licence do you want"
page...
http://creativecommons.org/license/
My own choice would be to go with an existing licence, simply because we
can rely on their legal team (and as I understand it both the FSF people
and the Creative Commons people have had professional copyright lawyers
look at their licences -- the CC people *are* professionals) to have
worded and checked it, rather than on our own amateur lawyering.
-Mary
