[TYPO3-doc] Documentation license

[Olivier Dobberkau]

Am 23.07.12 22:38, schrieb François Suter:

> What do you think? Do you know other alternatives worth considering? Has
> the FLOW3 team already chosen a license by any chance?

Hi François,

I have to give this in consideration. Quoting the T3A Bylaws and thus
all projects funded by the TYPO3 association:

"The TYPO3 Association promotes the project of the free software TYPO3
under the GNU GPL (GNU Public Licence)."

Regarding the documentation i would favor a license that is a close and
free as the GPL. Which means commercial usage in broader means.

The proposed CC BY-NC license creates in my opinion more confusion than
help. See the problems with the CC BY-NC license of the intro-package.

I personally think CC BY or CC BY-SA would suit best.

As i am no lawyer I would suggest that you speak to one of the EAB
members in charge for the documentation budget if you really want to
re-lisence the allready published documents.

We need maybe to go for legal help here too!

On the other half: Why is there a need to change the Open Content
License on the documents? What makes you think that license does need to
evolve? What is the idea behind a new license? What do you want to
create with a new license? What do you want to share, preserve, keep-out?

Best regards,

Olivier