[OpenStack-docs] [legal-discuss] [Openstack-docs] Licensing of documentation

Stefano Maffulli stefano at openstack.org
Tue Mar 17 03:47:22 UTC 2015


[let's continue this conversation on Docs list since this is not really
a legal issue and cross-posting creates only more administrative work
and little value]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 08:51:47PM -0500, Anne Gentle wrote:
[...]
> The reason that text hasn't changed: Since we don't have governance in place
> that indicates to a contributor that their content is licensed in a particular
> way, we have continued to have both licenses on the docs. Until the tie-in
> between gerrit and Foundation license agreement is resolved, we have not had a
> clear way forward. That bug is logged here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/
> openstack-ci/+bug/1311665

I think this is a different bug, one referring to the limitation of our
current systems to identify voters (ergo requiring Individual membership
for any contributor, including to docs).

I couldn't find a bug with keywords 'license' 'commons' or 'cc-by' in
the https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-manuals

The keyword 'license' brought up this bug for Infra (moved to
storyboard):

https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/story/1304636

but I don't think it's related to what we're talking about. Is there
something else logged?

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 23:10 -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> I think as Jeremy Stanley said in his comment, and also based on some
> of the other discussion about this issue last year, this has to be
> worked out between the Foundation and the TC. 

Yes, this is being worked out because it's simply an issue with the way
users are managed. The thread started on 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2015-March/002525.html
is part of the conversation on that topic.

/stef




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