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