On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 18:58 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
The Docs Team has recently reached consensus to change licenses that
cover the various full-size guides the team works on, such as the
Release Notes and the Installation Guide. Currently the works are
under the OPL 1.0, and the intention is to switch to the CC BY SA 3.0.
I agree that CC is a much better choice than OPL.
How do we make this relicensing work? I.e., if contributor X agreed that
their content could be used under the OPL, how is it that we can just
take that content and distribute it under a different license? I don't
remember if the CLA has any wording on this. (Obviously the intention of
the licenses is very similar, but nonetheless it seems like a murky
situation. We did have someone withdraw from Fedora and take their toys
with them when we last made a license change on the the wiki, IIRC).
-Chris