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

[Koichi S. <ko...@in...>]

It seems not reasonable to ask single license to all the Postgres-XC documents.    License could be different from document to document, especially those written by individuals.

As Joshua mentioned, maybe we can ask specific license to web site or Wiki contents and contributors to such contents should agree on this.

Creative commons looks looks okay.   ShareAlike, maybe no objection.   Then commercial or non-commercial?   As I mentioned before, I'm not sure what corner case "commercial" implies.    Fair use is allowd unconditionally.    So I think we can begin with non-commercial.

Any more inputs?
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Koichi Suzuki

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 07:44:35 +0900
Michael Paquier <mic...@gm...> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Joshua D. Drake <jd...@co...>wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 07/23/2012 03:34 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> >
> >      Agreed, which is why I suggested keeping our hands clean but forcing
> >> the
> >>     good community-citizen approach with attribution.
> >>
> >> On this point I kind of agree, everything that is labelled as
> >> "Postgres-XC development group" should be based on the same license as
> >> the code to facilitate all the things.
> >> However, docs written by guys not using Postgres-XC development group
> >> name on their docs but a personal name or company name can provide the
> >> license they want and if other people want to pick up those documents
> >> they need to contact the authors. This is for example the case of my own
> >> presentation documents. Those docs are under non-commercial as I use on
> >> them my company name and my own name.
> >>
> >
> > There is no way to force any author to release any document under any
> > license except in the instance where the author would like to contribute
> > that documentation directly to the Postgres-XC development group. In that
> > case (say a patch submission, or acceptance on the website or wiki) we can
> > force a specific license. Otherwise, we are powerless.
> 
> So we agree here.
> 
> 
> >  So Michael, I believe with that your concerns are addressed, yes?
> 
> Yes.
> -- 
> Michael Paquier
> http://michael.otacoo.com