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Richard --

The current situation is in flux, just a little.  My understanding is 
that there is a letter for the board explaining the process for moving 
the docs to CC-By, but that it needs to be addressed at the board level, 
because that's where it lies in the charter.

----  Nick

On 12/11/2013 2:15 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Certain manuals available at docs.openstack.org contain this legal
> notice:
>
>    Copyright © 2013 OpenStack Foundation
>
>    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
>    may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
>    obtain a copy of the License at
>
>    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>
>    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
>    implied. See the License for the specific language governing
>    permissions and limitations under the License.
> 	
> followed immdiately by a box that says:
>
>   Except where otherwise noted, this document is licensed under
>   Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License
>
>   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode
>
>
> This github repository suggests at quickest glance that Apache License
> 2.0 is the license: https://github.com/openstack/openstack-manuals
>
> Some docs writers at Red Hat were previously under the impression that
> CC BY was the license of OpenStack documentation, which I assume is
> incorrect except for material specifically on wiki.openstack.org.
>
> Can anyone clarify? We'd like to adapt some portions of the upstream
> documentation in our product documentation and we want to make sure we
> get the licensing right.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Richard Fontana
> Legal
> Red Hat, Inc.
>
>
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