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On 09/30/2013 03:32 PM, Anne Gentle wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com
> <mailto:aj at suse.com>> wrote:
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>     Looking at the license of our manuals, I'm a bit confused.
> 
>     For example
>     http://docs.openstack.org/grizzly/openstack-compute/admin/content/ and
>     http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/content/ both have Apache
>     License and a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License but
>     the wording suggests to me that the Apache License is the one to use
>     (correct?).
> 
>     Newer manuals like the user-guide only have the Creative Commons:
>     Image Guide:
>     http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/
>     End User Guide:
>     http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/
> 
>     Is this really the right license - or was that done by accident?
>     If the CC license is correct, will it work when we import content via
>     the autodocs from other OpenStack projects?
> 
> 
> Here's what I know. 
> 
> You can apply Apache 2.0 to code easily, but it's harder to apply to
> docs exactly. We do apply a blanket Apache 2.0 statement for our
> documentation, but we have also brought in content that was licensed
> CC-BY-SA 3.0. 
> 
> At a OpenStack Foundation Board Meeting October 2012 we successfully had
> the board approve use of CC-BY 3.0 for all documentation contributions.
> Here are the official minutes.
> 
>  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/15Oct2012BoardMinutes#Approval_of_the_CCBY_License_for_Documentation
> 
> So the docbook bk files can be updated to
> use http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ -- however I haven't
> investigated whether the tool chain enables cc-by instead of cc-by-sa. I
> think some action items we can take now are:
> 
> 1. Determine if cc-by is a viable option in the book file by testing the
> maven plugin. 

I checked the sources, it should work.

The End User Guid is already under cc-by - and looking at
http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/ this works fine.

> 2. Patch the books that were created after Oct 2012 with cc-by in the
> book file, such as the Image Guide, End User Guide, and Admin User Guide. 

I'll send a patch in a few minutes.

> For books that were created with Apache 2.0 licensed content, the idea
> is that the CC-BY license most closely matches that license. However I'd
> like to get legal advice on the best way forward for those guides. Does
> anyone want to contact the Foundation to ask for legal advice here? I
> can do it but would like to ask for a volunteer first. 

Andreas
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