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Re: Clarifying blog post licensing
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Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
Re: Clarifying blog post licensing |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Feb 2022 00:08:15 -0500 |
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Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hello Guix!
>>>
>>> With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is
>>> not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside
>>> Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing
>>> it).
>>>
>>> I’d like us to clarify that, with a footer on blog posts saying that,
>>> unless otherwise stated, posts are dual-licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and
>>> GFDL 1.3+ (the latter so we can reuse material in the cookbook and in
>>> the manual). Patch below.
>>>
>>> What do people think?
>>
>> Sounds good to me. I'm curious though; why do we need CC-BY-SA,
>> additionally to GFDL?
>
> We don’t “need” it, but I think it’s nice to have since it’s used by
> many free culture projects out there, starting with Wikipedia.
Thanks for the information.
Maxim