Licensing directions for Fedora content

Ian Weller ianweller at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 21:03:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 01:55:50PM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> Red Hat Legal, while tolerant of our OPL stance, would actually much
> prefer it if we went to CC-BY-SA for our docs. I've asked them to double
> check that this is acceptable to them, and if so, draft up some wording
> around how we would like people to give us attribution (that is the real
> weakness in CC-BY-SA).
> 
Given that we can find a good way to require those doing that to give us
attribution, I'd strongly support using the CC-BY-SA, most notably
because it's a more widespread license that I think a lot more people
have heard of than the OPL.

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Ian Weller <ianweller at gmail.com>
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