Fedora Magazine license

[Gianluca Sforna]

I know Fedora Magazine is still in the design/implementation phase, so
maybe content was not yet discussed, but may I safely assume it will
be published with something like a CC license?

I am asking because the Italian community wanted to publish a magazine
but is currently lacking regular contributors so having some material
we could translate and use would be a great help.

Thanks

G.

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[Máirín Duffy]

On Tue 08 Jan 2013 05:01:05 PM EST, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>  I know Fedora Magazine is still in the design/implementation phase,
> so
>  maybe content was not yet discussed, but may I safely assume it will
>  be published with something like a CC license? 
It seems like a reasonable assumption. Ruth?

~m

[Eric Christensen]

Documentation is generally licensed under a CC-BY-SA license.  Is that
acceptable for the magazine?

-Eric
On Jan 8, 2013 5:10 PM, "Máirín Duffy" <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  On Tue 08 Jan 2013 05:01:05 PM EST, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>  > I know Fedora Magazine is still in the design/implementation phase, so
>  > maybe content was not yet discussed, but may I safely assume it will
>  > be published with something like a CC license?
>
>  It seems like a reasonable assumption. Ruth?
>
>  ~m
>
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[maiki]

Leave it to a license discussion to bring me out of lurking...

I think CC-BY-SA is a great idea. That, or CC-BY. I am a fan of copyleft.

A related question, will the magazine require submitters to sign the
contributors agreement for Fedora? I don't know what is common practice,
but I would advise against that. We want to remove as much friction as
we can in the process, of course. ^_^

maiki


On 01/08/2013 02:41 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
>  Documentation is generally licensed under a CC-BY-SA license.  Is
> that
>  acceptable for the magazine?
>  
>  -Eric

[Eric Christensen]

On Jan 8, 2013 9:03 PM, "maiki" <maiki(a)interi.org&gt; wrote:
>  Leave it to a license discussion to bring me out of lurking...
>
>  I think CC-BY-SA is a great idea. That, or CC-BY. I am a fan of copyleft.
>
>  A related question, will the magazine require submitters to sign the
>  contributors agreement for Fedora? I don't know what is common practice,
>  but I would advise against that. We want to remove as much friction as
>  we can in the process, of course. ^_^ 
The contributor agreement is an agreement that we can license their works
as, in this case, CC-BY-SA.  There shouldn't be a lot of friction in
signing the agreement and I would suspect the most, if not all,
contributors would have already signed the agreement.

-Eric

[maiki]

On 01/08/2013 06:43 PM, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:

>  The contributor agreement is an agreement that we can license their
>  works as, in this case, CC-BY-SA.  There shouldn't be a lot of friction
>  in signing the agreement and I would suspect the most, if not all,
>  contributors would have already signed the agreement. 
I am unsure if this is the place to discuss this, so I will keep it short.

Content being licensed as CC-BY-SA on a site is an agreement, and one
that is used widely on the web. There are many sites that use it, with
the simple statement, "By submitting to our site you agree to license
your work under CC-BY-SA."

The Fedora Contributor Agreement has a larger process attached to it, as
I have just experienced. No doubt that has been brought up before, and I
don't care to throw my opinion in, but as a webcrafter that launches
sites, it is hard enough to get someone to email their work in, let
alone sign up, verify, agree, etc.

As it is the practice that the Fedora project uses, it must have its
merits. However, that is a hurdle for potential contributors. In
WordPress we have plugins like Authors Plus, so we don't even need a
person to have an account on the site for them to have a byline on a
submission.

I am admitted not caught up on the initial planning of the magazine, so
if there is a focus on seeking contributions from folks that are already
involved enough to have signed the agreement, I defer to your point. It
is not indicative of my personal experience (having been a Fedora user
for years), and my advise leans towards a workflow that encourages the
least amount of process to get content created.

That pretty much sums up my idea, so we don't need to discuss this on
this list. I realize it is kinda larger picture, and I am advising
because I am obsessed with webcraft, not because I feel like a
stakeholder in the magazine. ^_^

maiki