[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Documentation formats, licenses and file system structure
Hi all, I have received informal advice On 21/10/2019, 06:54, "Artem Mygaiev" <Artem_Mygaiev@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Before we ask Xen FuSA contributors to invest in documentation to > be presented as legally-valid evidence for certification, we should > ask a certified lawyer for their formal opinion on the validity of: > > (a) applying a source code license (BSD) to documentation > > There are also BSD documentation license variants which may be worth > looking at There is no LEGAL issue with using a source code license for documentation Typically, community issues arise when the license is has a patent clause which would act as a possible barrier to contributing to the docs (which should be low) > (b) moving text bidirectionally between source code (BSD) and > documentation (any license) > (c) moving text bidirectionally between source code (BSD) and > documentation (CC0) > > I will raise this at the next SIG meeting Fundamentally, you can’t move copyrightable content from any CC-BY-4/CC0 to BSD and vice versa without going through the process of changing a license On the community call we discussed Andy's sphinx-docs. Andy made a strong case to keep the docset as CC-BY-4 It rests on the assumption that user docs will always be different from what's in code and thus there is no need to move anything which is copyrightable between code and the docs Should that turn out to be wrong, there is still always the possibility of a mixed CC-BY-4 / BSD-2-Clause docset in future So we are not painting ourselves into a corner Regarding safety related docs, we discussed * CC-BY-4 => this is likely to be problematic as many docs are coupled closely with source * Dual CC-BY-4 / BSD-2-Clause licensing does not solve this problem * BSD-2-Clause docs would enable docs that Thus, the most sensible approach for safety related docs would be to use a BSD-2-Clause license uniformly in that case Regards Lars _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
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