[Harmony-Drafting] Licensing for website content and agreements
Allison Randal
allison at lohutok.net
Mon Jun 6 20:40:07 UTC 2011
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:
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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.
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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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