On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:05:54AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/27/2009 12:00 AM, Ben Cotton wrote:
>> The OPL has served us very well for a long time, I'm sad to see us
>> move from it, but at this point the writing is clear. We gain a lot
>> by going with a proper CC license.
>>
> Pardon my noobness, but what is it that we gain? I don't have any
> objections to changing per se, but I'd like to know what the argument
> is before I support it. :-)
Discussions starting at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-docs-list/2009-April/msg00061.html
Short version: CC BY SA is a much more widely used license allowing for
more sharing of content and it is better known and understood as well.
Let's make sure we keep our various legal minds roped in. I know that
Spot mentioned Red Hat Legal may be very much in favor of going with
CC BY-SA, so that may a problem solved before we had it. :-)
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