[Nix-dev] What license does the content of the nixos wiki and the manuals have?

[Joachim Schiele]

two problems i see here:
- text can't be covered by GPL thus they created CC
- some edits in the wiki are anonymous (whom to ask?)

i like that we are adressing this issue now. it is very important.

i'd go for CC BY SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
as IMHO this fits the other licenses pretty well

On 25.09.2015 03:48, stewart mackenzie wrote:
> According to my understanding:
> 
> * 1st agree on a license for the wiki.
> * we need to get all wiki contributors to agree on said license.
> * we'll need a written statement from all wiki contributors, could be
> something simple like "I agree to publish my contributions to the nixos
> wiki under the X license" these statements could be on a new mailing
> list thread. It'll be mundane receiving these mails but it's needed..
> 
> (longerterm strategy)
> * The Nixos Foundation could use selected parts of the C4.1(
> http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:22) particularly the licensing bits to create
> a nixos contributors 'contract'. It /should/ be difficult but not
> impossible to change the license of wiki, nix{pkgs,os,} as this prevents
> vendor lockins / foundation / consortium clusterfuck takeovers where
> dishonest agents could for example purchase the copyright to a codebase.
> i.e. what happened to Berkeleydb and oracle.
> * so far all the contribution copyrights to nix{os,pkgs} belong to the
> contributors and not the nixos foundation. It is preferable (IMHO) that
> copyright remain in the contributors hands and not the nixos foundation.
> Foundations can be corrupted, this prevents sillybuggers happening in
> foundations.
> 
> Personally, i'd prefer the whole nix{os,pkgs} to be a license like gpl3
> or mpl2. These licenses create prevent an org like redhat form forking
> and sublicensing.
> 
> I am not a lawyer.
> 
> There are treasures of untold wealth in nixos let's at least properly
> protect them.
> 
> On 25 Sep 2015 01:52, "Vladimír Čunát" <vcunat at gmail.com
> <mailto:vcunat at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 09/24/2015 05:24 PM, Domen Kožar wrote:
>     > I'm all for permissive creative commons license.
> 
>     It might be good to have the same license for wiki and nix{pkgs,os,}
>     docs, allowing us to move content around freely.
> 
>     I'm no lawyer, too, but I think there's also the issue of the copyright
>     holder, which might be the foundation, for example. And the question of
>     "asking everyone" seems rather difficult; moreover, I'm not sure what
>     kind of approval is needed (I'm afraid a paper-written one in some
>     jurisdictions).
> 
> 
>     Vladimir
> 
> 
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