[oi-dev] Public Documentation License (terms)

[Michael Kruger]

On 05/17/2016 09:33 PM, Michael Kruger wrote:

> So, if the content found on openindiana.org or wiki.openindiana.org were
> PDL licensed, then it would also follow that any document created from
> such content would then need to include all the contributor names in
> it's PDL notice.
>
> And if a large document such as a new handbook was created from such
> content, then the list of contributors would need to include all the
> authors from each and every source document.
>
> While both of the websites support change tracking, this concern might
> be completely irrelevant because none of the documents found on
> openindiana.org appear to contain visible PDL license declarations or
> notices.


One last thought on all this.....

If the content found on OpenIndiana.org (wiki, www) is not PDL licensed 
(as far as I can tell, this appears to be a true statement), then the 
argument to use the PDL for new documents (for the sake of re-usability 
on OpenIndiana.org) does not seem to be valid.

Having said that, there may be other valid reasons...such as drawing 
content from the OpenSolaris books. In this case, the PDL makes more 
sense, but even then isn't actually a requirement.

Such a larger work could for example use the MIT license (as long as the 
terms of the PDL were met for the content which came from a PDL source). 
But in such a case, the PDL would probably make things less confusing 
and easier to manage.

Michael