[legal-discuss] docs licenses: current state and desired state

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Tue Mar 24 22:19:58 UTC 2015


The source here would be e.g. DocBook XML files maintained in git
repositories. The output would be e.g. HTML or PDFs. The guides are
generated analogously to compilation of source code.

In the cases Anne was asking about there is a repository that has a
copy of the Apache License 2.0 but the output does not contain a copy
of the license or otherwise indicate how the guide in question is licensed.

RF

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 09:57:43PM +0000, Radcliffe, Mark wrote:
> I am not sure that I understand the question about source/output.  Is this
> code?
> 
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> I think that we need to keep ASL2 for code in the guides since the bylaws
> require it.
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> 
> From: Anne Gentle [mailto:annegentle at justwriteclick.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:34 PM
> To: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org; legal-discuss at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [legal-discuss] docs licenses: current state and desired state
> 
>  
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> As promised I investigated the current state of our community guides license
> indicators and added to the wiki page at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/
> Documentation/ContentSpecs
> 
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> 
> Current states:
> OpenStack Architecture Design Guide: Apache 2.0 and CC-by-sa 3.0
> OpenStack Cloud Administrator Guide: Apache 2.0 and CC-by-sa 3.0
> 
> OpenStack Install Guides (all): Apache 2.0
> OpenStack High Availability Guide: Apache 2.0
> OpenStack Configuration Reference: Apache 2.0
> 
> OpenStack Security Guide: CC-by 3.0
> Virtual Machine Image Guide: CC-by 3.0
> OpenStack Operations Guide: CC-by 3.0
> OpenStack End User Guide: CC-by 3.0
> OpenStack Admin User Guide: CC-by 3.0
> Command-Line Interface Reference: CC-by 3.0
> 
> Contributor dev docs (docs.openstack.org/developer/<projectname>): none
> indicated in output; Apache 2.0 in repo
> OpenStack API Quick Start: none indicated in output; Apache 2.0 in repo
> API Complete Reference: none indicated in output; Apache 2.0 in repo
> 
> Infrastructure User Manual: none indicated in output; CC-by 3.0 in repo
> 
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> Desired state:
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> CC-by 3.0 indicated in the output for all guides.
> 
> Apache 2.0 also indicated in the output for guides containing code and content.
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> Tasks:
> 
> Change first five listed guides to CC-by 3.0 in source and output.
> 
> Change API Quick Start to RST so that cc-by 3.0 can be easily indicated.
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> Questions:
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> On guides where the output doesn't indicate a license but the source does; is
> that sufficient?
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> Thanks for the help -- I can take the tasks on myself, but would like guidance
> on whether a license indicator on output is required.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Anne
> 
> --
> 
> Anne Gentle
> annegentle at justwriteclick.com
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