[Koha] RFC: relicense wiki.koha.org

Chris Cormack chris at bigballofwax.co.nz
Fri May 8 09:14:30 NZST 2009


2009/5/8 Galen Charlton <galen.charlton at liblime.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Ben Finney <ben+koha at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>> But it also doesn't solve the incompatibility between the Koha manual,
>> licensed under GPL, and the Wiki content.
>>
>> Why not license the wiki content also under GPL? Then the same license
>> terms apply to all the software: programs, documentation, and wiki.
>
> Good idea - the GPL seems to have worked OK for the manual.  MJ and I
> discussed this a bit more on #koha yesterday, and MJ also suggested
> either the GPL or a free-for-all.  For the sake of completeness, the
> other licenses that came up in the discussion include:
>
> CC-BY - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> CC0 - http://creativecommons.org/license/zero/
>
> I now think that the GPL is the way to go.  I've updated the
> relicensing page on the wiki
> (http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=relicensing); are there any other
> comments about the license or the voting process?
>
Just a simple
me too

To the idea of the GPL

Chris


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