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

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 20:03:21 UTC 2014


On 03/21/2014 03:33 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> 
> [Jonathan wrote:]
>>> 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,
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> One more point: which version of CC-BY?
>>
>>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
>>
>>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
> 
> Not sure but just noting that this Board resolution:
> 
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Governance/Foundation/15Oct2012BoardMinutes#Approval_of_the_CCBY_License_for_Documentation.
> 
> does not indicate a version, and at the time of the resolution 3.0 was
> the latest version and CC BY 4.0 hadn't been released yet.

Given that:

 - 3.0 was current at the time of the above resolution

 - wiki.openstack.org uses 3.0

that's the one I put down for this project.  Here's the change:

  https://review.openstack.org/82586

Someone please let me know if we should be doing something different.

Thanks,

-- 
Russell Bryant



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