changing content licenses (OPL => CC BY SA)

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Thu Jun 25 15:35:58 UTC 2009


Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> ----- "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>> If memory serves, we originally inherited the OPL from Red Hat when
>> Fedora came into existence. The OPL isn't really a great
>> documentation
>> license, IMHO, and changing to CC-BY-SA, which is more broadly
>> accepted
>> and understood by the larger community is a benefit to us.
>>
>> AFAIK, no one from the Creative Commons has asked us to make this
>> change.
>>
> 
> NO we made a switch from some other license to OPL because the other license was not great for documentation. The OPL was picked because at the time we were to inherit a bunch of documentation from Red Hat's RHEL docs. Not sure that has ever really happened on the scale that anyone hoped.
> 
> I did not intend to suggest that Creative Commons was directly behind this change. The popularity of (CC) in the last couple years has bloomed it is nearly viral. While the licenses may be very good I still feel having a (CC) logo really is a fashion statement, plus everyone else is doing it... Hopefully these are not the concious reasons that the change is being made.
> 
> For those that are too young to understand my "members only" jacket reference. At some point everyone traded their shiny nylon jackets for these "members only" brand jackets. And I do mean EVERYONE. Later the Members Only jackets were replaced by acid washed denim.
> 
> -- Bob
> 

Dont forget the buttons on the jean jackets. They rocked.

-- bk




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