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

Sean Dague sean at dague.net
Thu Mar 20 20:37:58 UTC 2014


+1

On 03/20/2014 01:43 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> ++
> 
> 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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