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

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Thu Mar 20 18:35:24 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 01:12:16PM -0400, Russell Bryant 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.
>
> Perhaps something that the Foundation staff should decide as part of
> implementing the CC BY policy for documentation.
>

+1

I know a draft memo is started but it hasn't made it on a Board meeting
agenda to my knowledge.

Anne


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