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@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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