From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [194.106.48.114] (helo=tim.rpsys.net ident=0) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JgnOw-0001GR-EO for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:48:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m31KmELv019090 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:48:14 +0100 Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18748-08 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:48:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (dax.rpnet.com [192.168.1.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m31Km8Vi019084 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:48:08 +0100 From: Richard Purdie To: openembedded-devel@openembedded.org In-Reply-To: <47F25AAA.8020705@gmx.net> References: <200803310907.56781.e.robertson.svg@gmail.com> <200803311101.39141.geoffrey@pager.net> <200804010840.42271.openembedded@haerwu.biz> <47F25AAA.8020705@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:48:09 +0100 Message-Id: <1207082889.4916.25.camel@dax.rpnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Subject: Re: OE Manual: License change? X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 20:48:14 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:54 +0200, Robert Schuster wrote: > Marcin Juszkiewicz schrieb: > > OpenEmbedded documentation use "Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0", > > Poky Handbook use "Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share > > Alike 2.0" license. Copying from Poky Handbook to OpenEmbedded manual > > require change on OE doc license to CC-NC-SA. > > > > I vote for changing OE manual license to CC-NC-SA as there is lot of good > > stuff in Poky handbook which would be nice to have also in OE manual. > OMG not any of these broken *-NC licenses. ;) Why 'broken'? What does it stop you doing which you want to do? > A manual is a functional work and therefore should IMHO not restrict the > uses. > > Any chance of changing poky manual's license to something less > restrictive? CC-BY-SA/CC-BY preferably? Not really. We went around in circles with the manual licence and on the one hand we want it open, we want people to be able to make changes and we want it to be useful for everyone. How you protect work invested in something like Poky is very tricky however, particularly when we're keen on giving back to the community. At the end of the day, Poky is commercial to some degree and what we don't want is someone to rebadge Poky and its manual and then make money on the result and this approach gives us some protection. I'm relatively happy with the outcome and whilst its a shame the licenses aren't compatible, I don't think this will be too much of an issue. People are free to submit to one, the other or both and may the best manual win :) Don't underestimate the amount of work involved in writing these things... For the record I personally don't think -NC is appropriate for OE's manual. Cheers, Richard