[legal-discuss] License for design specifications (blueprints)

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Thu Mar 20 17:12:16 UTC 2014


On 03/20/2014 01:06 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
> The Nova project is looking to move the content of design specifications
> to a git repository for the Juno development cycle [1].  The contents of
> this repository will not be code.  It will primarily be documentation.
> 
> Right now we put the Apache 2 LICENSE file in the repository and have
> the same license header in the template used for specifications.
> 
>   http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-specs/tree/LICENSE
>   http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/nova-specs/tree/template.rst
> 
> Is this licensing the proper choice here?  If not, what should we use
> instead?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> [1]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/030576.html
> 

To possibly answer my own question ...

I found in a previous thread that the board officially approved using
CC-BY for documentation here:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/15Oct2012BoardMinutes#Approval_of_the_CCBY_License_for_Documentation.

So perhaps we should be using that since this is effectively
documentation?  I also expect that this content be used heavily when
developing the official project documentation based on the features
described in these specifications.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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