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Thanks for the clarification Anne. 

At the moment I do have one question: I actually only see the 
Apache/CC BY-SA notice on one manual,
http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/index.html

Is the Apache License 2.0 notice here something that should be ignored
for purposes of understanding how that manual is licensed? I'm asking
about this one because we are planning on producing one item of
documentation that will adapt some material from this particular
manual. Our usual product documentation license is itself actually CC
BY-SA 3.0. It's not a huge issue one way or the other of course.

(FWIW our original thought was to use CC BY for our downstream
documentation to harmonize it with the upstream documentation; at the
time our docs writers were, I think, assuming that the CC BY licensing
of OpenStack documentation would be effective by the time we'd be
publishing our downstream documentation.)

Thanks,
- Richard





On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:51:45AM -0600, Anne Gentle wrote:
> Thanks for asking Richard. The Board meeting notes with the CC-BY decision are
> at:
> 
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/15Oct2012BoardMinutes#
> Approval_of_the_CCBY_License_for_Documentation
> 
> Alice King has a draft memo to go to the Board the next time it gets on the
> Agenda with more details. I can certainly answer questions you have, though I
> did delegate this chase to the appropriately named Nick Chase. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Anne
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     Certain manuals available at docs.openstack.org contain this legal
>     notice:
> 
>       Copyright   2013 OpenStack Foundation
> 
>       Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
>       may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
>       obtain a copy of the License at
> 
>       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> 
>       Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>       distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>       WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
>       implied. See the License for the specific language governing
>       permissions and limitations under the License.
> 
>     followed immdiately by a box that says:
> 
>      Except where otherwise noted, this document is licensed under
>      Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
> 
>      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
> 
> 
>     This github repository suggests at quickest glance that Apache License
>     2.0 is the license: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
> 
>     Some docs writers at Red Hat were previously under the impression that
>     CC BY was the license of OpenStack documentation, which I assume is
>     incorrect except for material specifically on wiki.openstack.org.
> 
>     Can anyone clarify? We'd like to adapt some portions of the upstream
>     documentation in our product documentation and we want to make sure we
>     get the licensing right.
> 
>     Thanks!
> 
>     Richard Fontana
>     Legal
>     Red Hat, Inc.
> 
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> 
> 
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> Anne Gentle
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