Copyright suggestion

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Sat Sep 30 04:59:09 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:42 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 00:16 +0600, Russell John wrote:
> > What about releasing the work under a Creative Commons license? Just a thought.
> 
> I'm not sure I see the utility in doing so, especially since the vast,
> vast majority of what's on these pages is very Fedora Project specific.
> As such, not only is it probably material that needs to be protected
> from potential user confusion and trademark dilution, but it's probably
> also useless anywhere but where it is.

Belated reply to make it clear that, at this time, the CC is not an
optional license we can use for Fedora content.  AIUI, the major
objection is the lack of warranty protection, which is an important
consideration in the US.

- Karsten
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