Copyright Submission Proposal

[Robyn Bergeron]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb at redhat.com>
> To: "marketing >> Fedora Marketing team" <marketing at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:42:03 AM
> Subject: Copyright Submission Proposal
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> To streamline this whole thing, can we just agree to publish all content
> on the magazine (and ask authors to agree) on a single Creative Commons
> license?

#1: Doesn't the FPCA provide for this anyway, in the absence of some standardized agreement? It seems like a lot of overhead in terms of keeping track of who has agreed to publish under those terms. It's either a new FAS group where people have agreed to a license, or revalidating existing fas groups, or... just checking as we already do to make sure people have signed the FPCA. (I assume that Magazine is hooked up to FAS in some fashion.)

> 
> I would *personally* prefer the most restrictive of the CC licenses (CC
> BY-NC-ND 4.0):
> 
> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/


#2:  CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 is listed in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing as a license that isn't acceptable for Fedora. I realize you're citing 4.0 here, and we don't have guidance on 4.0 in the wiki, but I have to imagine it's not going to be much of a change. The NC part is still NC... as you said, it's the most restrictive, and at least in my opinion, restrictiveness isn't exactly freedom-enabling :)

Copied the legal list for love and guidance.

-Robyn

> 
> But I'd accept most of the CC licenses.
> 
> Thoughts, comments, flames?
> 
> Best,
> 
> jzb
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