From: Andrew Sayers <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Sayers <andrew-20120318@pileofstuff.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>,
Nathan Gray <n8gray@n8gray.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Ivankov <divanorama@gmail.com>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
David Barr <davidbarr@google.com>,
semen.vadishev@tmatesoft.com
Subject: Re: Licensing a file format (was Re: SVN Branch Description Format)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F6797AD.2070501@pileofstuff.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120319013422.GC19680@burratino>
On 19/03/12 01:34, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Sayers wrote:
>
>> I'm planning to release the spec under a Creative Commons
>> Attribution-NoDerivs license
> [...]
>> So the big question - would you be more inclined to use/contribute to
>> the SVN Branch Description Format if it had a different license?
>
> Yes. By the way, I think fear of forking/discussion of potential
> improvements/translation into other languages in the context of
> standards is misguided. If you would like legal protection for your
> standard, that is what trademark law is for.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jonathan
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Could you expand on this? A quick tour of the git codebase suggests
your objection is just to the "no derivatives" bit for documentation,
and not to the MIT license for code?
It sounds like you're saying that forking isn't a big real-world
problem, which I guess makes sense - it'll all work out in the end as
long as a single standard is in everybody's interests. So the CC-BY
license is my favourite for now.
- Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-19 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-11 10:59 SVN Branch Description Format Andrew Sayers
2012-03-18 23:18 ` Steven Michalske
2012-03-19 1:28 ` Andrew Sayers
2012-03-19 1:28 ` Licensing a file format (was Re: SVN Branch Description Format) Andrew Sayers
2012-03-19 1:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2012-03-19 20:31 ` Andrew Sayers [this message]
2012-03-20 22:59 ` Jeff King
2012-03-23 0:08 ` SVN Branching Language " Andrew Sayers
2012-03-30 4:06 ` SVN Branch Description Format Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-03-31 1:27 ` Andrew Sayers
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