[Harmony-Drafting] Licensing for website content and agreements

Carlo Piana carlo at piana.eu
Tue Jun 7 10:44:25 UTC 2011


Seems a good and balanced suggestion

Carlo



On 06/07/2011 10:34 AM, Amanda Brock wrote:
> I am against a licence for the licence and would follow the approach
> suggested by Allison re GPL.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts?
>
> Amanda
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> On 06/06/11 21:40, Allison Randal wrote:
>> On 06/06/2011 12:29 PM, consiliens wrote:
>>> I thought the agreements were using CC BY?  After reading your response
>>> it seems I'm mistaken and the harmony agreements are released under a
>>> custom license.
>> The proposal in this thread was:
>>
>> ------
>> Except where otherwise noted, all content on this site is licensed under
>> a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Everyone is permitted to
>> copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Harmony contributor
>> agreements. Modified versions of the agreements, however, should not be
>> called "Harmony" agreements.
>> ------
>>
>> So, the website content as CC-BY, but the agreements themselves as
>> "distribute verbatim is fine, change the name if you modify them". CC-BY
>> seems like massive over-engineering for the agreements. Look at GPL for
>> their simple terms for the license itself "distribute verbatim is fine,
>> no changes allowed". Apache doesn't even bother with specifying terms
>> for their license or contributor agreement, and neither do many others.
>>
>> But, if the group generally wants a license for the license, CC-BY does
>> seem like a close fit to what we've talked about. Perhaps we could make
>> the second sentence just clarification, as "This means that everyone is
>> permitted to copy and distribute..."
>>
>> Allison
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