Licenses for open source docs (was: Migrating contents wikis --> new docs)
8 Aug
2021
8 Aug
'21
11:18
On Fri 2021-08-06, Richard Brown wrote:
I also think the GPLv3 is a bloody stupid license for use for documentation.
What is your personal preference / recommendation to open source projects when it comes to licensing documentation?
Regardless though, your point is irrelevant to the topic at hand
- the wikis license and doc.openSUSE.orgs license are different with competing clauses
Sadly the FSF has done a bad job keeping their key licenses compatible. For example in GCC we've been suffering from GPLv3 vs GFDL which has made it unnecessarily hard to move documentation snippets (such as descriptions for command-line options) between code to docs. From a practical perspective I am wondering whether having the same license for all/most aspects of a project - code, docs, web pages,... might be best? Gerald
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