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

Jonathan Bryce jonathan at openstack.org
Fri Mar 21 15:58:20 UTC 2014


On Mar 20, 2014, at 12:12 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.

Correct. Since this is new documentation, not embedded in source code, it falls under that Board resolution and can go out with CC-BY. Thanks,

Jonathan





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