[Bf-docboard] Script Licensing

[Juho Vepsäläinen]

Who has the authority to add such an exception? It would be a shame if
the wiki could contain only scripts licensed under OCL.

Sincerely,
Juho "BeBraw" Vepsäläinen

2008/6/5 joe <joeedh at gmail.com>:
> Erm. . .not sure if this is technically correct, like I said before the
> copyright page in the wiki *does* have open content in it.  And by default
> it should apply to every page in the wiki, unless someone added an exception
> for scripts.
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Juho Vepsäläinen <bebraw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you Roger. I clarified the licensing terms at
>> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Resources/PyNode_Cookbook .
>> Hopefully it is fine now. Feel free to tweak it as you see necessary.
>> :)
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Juho "BeBraw" Vepsäläinen
>>
>> 2008/6/4 Roger Wickes <rogerwickes at yahoo.com>:
>> > Scripts that are posted and given to the public domain in an
>> > unrestricted
>> > fashion, should NOT bear any copyright or other license/ownership title,
>> > like the color ones. They just start off with import Blender. That is
>> > easiest. anyone can use that fragment/code any way they want.
>> >
>> > If the author wants credit or wants to give credit to people who helped
>> > them, they can say "thanks go out to Roger (PapaSmurf) and Campbell
>> > (IdeasMan42) for this awesome script." in a comment in the header or
>> > wherever in the code the help was given.
>> >
>> > If the author wishes some control over the future use of the script,
>> > that is
>> > when they want to say
>> >
>> > Copyright (c) 2008 Roger D. Wickes, PO Box 680310, Marietta, GA 30068.
>> > All
>> > rights reserved worldwide. Use or modification of this script is subject
>> > to
>> > its license. This script is licensed under the Creative Commons with
>> > Attribution license, a copy of which can be found <here>. By downloading
>> > or
>> > using this script, the user agrees to the full terms of the license
>> > without
>> > modification.
>> >
>> > The author must decide which license to use, and should NOT attempt to
>> > write
>> > their own - it would be worthless in a court of law. Use any of the GNU
>> > or
>> > CC licenses. If you own something, you may be liable for it as well, so
>> > be
>> > careful when copyrighting software, and be sure to use an airtight
>> > license.
>> >
>> > ----------------
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>> > recipient, please delete this message and contact Mr. Wickes
>> > immediately.
>> >
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>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I added a simple script cookbook to the wiki. See
>> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Resources/PyNode_Cookbook . Does
>> > anyone know if the scripts added directly to the wiki are
>> > automatically bound to Open Content License? I mean is it possible to
>> > use any other license for a script should it be provided directly at
>> > the wiki? It might be nice if the script authors could choose the
>> > license (GPL., BAL, OCL) (see
>> > http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta/Licenses for more information)
>> > they like.
>> >
>> > In my opinion it would be great if the script author could include
>> > something like "(C) *Year* *script author name* - released under My
>> > Awesome License - www.linktomylicense.org" at the beginning of the
>> > script instead of providing whole license as it takes a lot of space.
>> >
>> > I am not a licensing expert so that's why I am asking you. If anyone
>> > has any sort idea regarding the issue, please let me know. This will
>> > help the cookbook to evolve further and hopefully to gain some
>> > popularity amongst the users. So far PyNodes have been pretty minor
>> > feature but it would be great to see that changed.
>> >
>> > Sincerely
>> > Juho "BeBraw" Vepsäläinen
>> >
>> >
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