Adopt a License Policy #4
From https://github.com/openraster/ora-project/issues/4
People need to know when and how they can reuse our stuff.
We should adopt a clear licensing policy for all the project's output, so that we can licence each thing we do appropriately. There may be no license on existing work, which could well be a problem: there may be docs we have to cleanroom as a result. I think the old-old wiki was effectively public domain, but I would need to check.
I'm strongly in favour of explicit CC0 for specification docs and wiki texts, and an appropriate & highly open Creative Commons license for artwork. For software and bundled schema data, a license meeting the DFSG ought to be appropriate.
MyPaint's licensing policy may be a good start for this. However OpenRaster's use cases will be very different.
Andrew also added:
My current position is that the OpenRaster specification has always been Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike v2.5 Generic.
- The spec was initially created on the CREATE wiki, under that site's blanket by-sa 2.5.
* Ref for license: [archive.org capture of Main_Page shortly before its shutdown](http://web.archive.org/web/20120218083105/http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Main_Page) * Many contributors during that time, names unfortunately lost to time. * [ ] TASK: salvage what we can from this time period, for attribution purposes.
- Since it was ported to the freedesktop.org wiki instance, its license has remained unchanged.
* No license was declared within the spec itself * The freedesktop.org wiki does not impose any license, according to its current text. * [ ] TODO: extract archive.org refs for this assertion.
I have been the only person editing specification's specification-y content since the import, according to my prepared git extract
Joe Rayhawk
<jrayhawk@freedesktop.org>
has contributed many automated moin2iki and moin2mdwn changes. They have also contributed big markdown cleanups, which we will incorporate.* [ ] TODO: contact Joe, and determine if they're happy with my assessment of the license.
- According to my prepared git extract, there have been no other significant contributors to the spec during the FreeDesktop years, except as noted in the commit messages (changes were discussed on the CREATE mailing list)