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

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Thu Mar 20 17:43:37 UTC 2014


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On Mar 20, 2014 9:12 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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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