On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 02:54:57PM +0000, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> public-domain is compatible with EVERYTHING
I'm a bit in the middle here.
I prefer to have all Gentoo documentation under the CC-BY-SA license. If
someone edited a public domain document but wants to make sure that his
contribution remains attributed, he must make sure that his contribution
itself is licensed while the rest of the work remains PD - and that's one
can of worms we would be opening.
Otoh, I do feel that PD documents shouldn't disapproved. After all, many
great documents are PD or have no copyright (due to the deceased being dead
for more than 70 years).
But I'm totally opposed to making the license tag more flexible. We're not
allowing the Gentoo Ebuilds to be released under anything else than GPL-2
either...
In this situation, I would say that it is best that the document mentions
that it is released under the public domain and it doesn't set <license/>.
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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