[Bf-docboard] License for docs

[reiner.prokein]

Hey everybody,

I am directly affected by this move since i have forked Blender and the 
manual. And i do have some concerns. So i think i need to raise my hand 
here.

I am still not sure under what license i need to put the manual now. 
Since the "original" license of the Blender manual at the time of 
forking was an invalid one. And not even by unasked changing the manual 
license to CC0. But already by your current description. From what i 
know it cannot be both as described at every manual page at the moment. 
It is either Public domain or CC0. Not Public Domain as CC0. Those two 
license types are still contradicting licenses with varying freedom, 
even when they are very close to each other. It's like you say it is GPL 
as Apache license. But i am no lawyer. So i might be wrong here. Maybe 
Public Domain even allows double licensing.

The more important point: isn't it the proper way that you need the 
explicit permission of everybody involved to change open source 
licenses? When it would be so easy to change the licenses by simply 
asking if somebody does not agree, while knowing that some of the 
affected persons will never read it, then i could simply change the GPL 
license to Apache for my Blender fork. Nobody will deny it at my board. 
And this is imho what you are doing here with the manual. Curious 
situation :)

That said, i really look forward how you will solve the license dilemma 
since it will also solve my license dilemma.

Kind regards

Reiner from Bforartists

Am 24.06.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Campbell Barton:
> Seems there is no disagreement here, we'll go ahead with proposal.
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is a discussion about the proper license for the manual.
>> https://developer.blender.org/D1948
>>
>> In short, I suggest:
>>
>> - Convert all old "Open Content" to CC-BY-SA in the new manual
>>
>> - Add a license page in the manual that tells that we migrated old OCL content to CC-BY-SA. Tell that the original content is still OCL (link to download), and that the new CC-BY-SA is nearly identical and also copyleft. Add foundation at blender.org email address for people to send questions to if they have.
>>
>> - For new content advise to use CC-BY-SA, or CC0. At choice of the authors.
>>
>> -Ton-
>>
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