Re: [Postgres-xc-general] License of Postgres-XC related documents and contents

[Koichi S. <koi...@gm...>]

"Commercial" has very very wide corner cases and I think it's  not
practical to allow "any" commercial use.   Reference document, as you
find in doc-xc in our GIT is licensed under PostgreSQL license and is
exceptional because it is essentially the same as the code.

For other materials, they have different backgrounds and is reasonable
to allow only non-commercial user while the users can change the
contents.    As suggested, individual document can be given different
copyright or license as done in PG materials.

I also think that commercial use should be licensed individually and
should be licensed free or almost free if the use helps XC community.

Yes, fundraising group will help for the licensing, as well as more
general financial help.   Getting financial help from organizations
other than NTT is very very helpful for XC community.     It will be
nice to begin to discuss this.

Regards;
----------
Koichi Suzuki


2012/7/14 Michael Paquier <mic...@gm...>:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Mason Sharp <ma...@st...> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Koichi Suzuki <ko...@in...>
>> wrote:
>> > Mason is proposing that it's better to license XC contents commercially
>> > as well.
>> >
>>
>> I am just saying that anything from the Postgres-XC Development Group
>> could be like the PostgreSQL Development Group and allow liberal
>> usage. If someone does not want to allow liberal usage, then they put
>> it under their own name or company name instead of the Postgres-XC
>> Development Group, and under any such license that they choose (is
>> that more similar to how PostgreSQL also operates?).  It seems like an
>> easy way to avoid disagreements and avoid adding bylaws, committees
>> and bureaucracy.
>
> Just to be clear: what are the documents you are talking about?
> If it is the documentation in GIT, then it falls under Postgres-XC
> Development Group copyright and is licensed as PostgreSQL license.
> If it is the presentation documents that have been used at conferences, this
> is different. And in this case if you want to reuse those materials you
> might need to contact the authors except if they decided to transmit the
> copyright of their documents under Postgres-XC Development Group. For
> example, I haven't written any presentation document under Postgres-XC
> Development group label, and I don't recall that I transmitted the right to
> use my own presentation slides for commercial usages.
> --
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com
>
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