[Bf-docboard] Wiki Documentation License

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi all,

I presume the issue is not raising much questions or resistance. It's more or less cosmetic anyway, being official FSF compatible for docs is never a bad thing anyway.

To be sure this change is well understood I'll connect in person with some of the frequent contributors though. Will do after my holidays early october. If that goes fine we then can officially move to the OPL.

Thanks,

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands



On 30 Aug, 2013, at 0:15, W. Nelson wrote:

> In a coincidence, I am headed to an Internet copyright lecture tonight by a expert lawyer on the topic.  If anyone can think of some specific questions to ask I will do so and post back to this group.  It is shortly after 3pm Pacific Time so the lecture starts in 4 hours.  I will check this email just before the Q&A segment.
> 
> Please ask any relevant questions you can think of to ask and I will see what she says.
> JTa
> 
> 
> From: Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org>
> To: Blender Documentation Project <bf-docboard at blender.org> 
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 8:56 AM
> Subject: [Bf-docboard] Wiki Documentation License
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I hardly ever check it, and I don't think many people really did. But it's good to have this issue well sorted out, especially when others want to use the content here.
> 
> The status now:
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderWiki:Copyrights
> 
> Which leads to:
> http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
> 
> The license is available in two versions, both confusingly named OPL. The newer one:
> http://opencontent.org/openpub/
> 
> The original OPL has been marked by FSF as "non free", due to the commercial restrictions worded it in it. Probably this line:
> 
> "You may not charge a fee for the sole service of providing access to and/or use of the OC via 
> a network".
> 
> The new OPL has been defined FSF as 'free license' and 'copyleft', they just don't recommond it.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpenPublicationL
> 
> Within the spirit of Blender's project here (GNU GPL copyleft), I think the 2nd version of OPL aligns with how Blender coders would need to handle their contributions. We could even consider (because of the link to this opencontent site) that both licenses are valid?
> 
> I'd like to first see some feedback from others about it here though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Ton-
> 
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