From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Sayers Subject: Re: Licensing a file format (was Re: SVN Branch Description Format) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:41 +0000 Message-ID: <4F6797AD.2070501@pileofstuff.org> References: <4F5C85A3.4080806@pileofstuff.org> <4F668BD4.70808@pileofstuff.org> <20120319013422.GC19680@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Sayers , Git Mailing List , Sam Vilain , Stephen Bash , Nathan Gray , Jeff King , Sverre Rabbelier , Dmitry Ivankov , Ramkumar Ramachandra , David Barr , semen.vadishev@tmatesoft.com To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 19 21:31:57 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S9jFA-0000kU-J3 for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:31:52 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754643Ab2CSUbr (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:31:47 -0400 Received: from mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.48]:19782 "EHLO mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752752Ab2CSUbq (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:31:46 -0400 Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20120319203144.LXOK20752.mtaout02-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:44 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (really [94.170.150.126]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.3.00.04.00 201-2196-133-20080908) with ESMTP id <20120319203144.YTSY23925.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.0.2]>; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 20:31:44 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/3.1.19 In-Reply-To: <20120319013422.GC19680@burratino> X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=JvdXmxIgLJv2/GthKqHpGJEEHukvLcvELVXUanXFreg= c=1 sm=0 a=pFZ1vDXyzkQA:10 a=jVv34ezM4nwA:10 a=u4BGzq-dJbcA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=VwQbUJbxAAAA:8 a=2o0rwsxK18A_E8S9_SgA:9 a=WqnpPMN0tdmfrt0RlckA:7 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=x8gzFH9gYPwA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > 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