Licensing directions for Fedora content

Basil Mohamed Gohar abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org
Thu Apr 9 09:01:45 UTC 2009


On 04/07/2009 05:03 AM, Ian Weller wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:55:50PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
>    
>> Red Hat Legal, while tolerant of our OPL stance, would actually much
>> prefer it if we went to CC-BY-SA for our docs. I've asked them to double
>> check that this is acceptable to them, and if so, draft up some wording
>> around how we would like people to give us attribution (that is the real
>> weakness in CC-BY-SA).
>>
>>      
> Given that we can find a good way to require those doing that to give us
> attribution, I'd strongly support using the CC-BY-SA, most notably
> because it's a more widespread license that I think a lot more people
> have heard of than the OPL.
>
>    
For what it's worth, I also vote +1 for CC-BY-SA.




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