Relicense documentation to creative commons
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We currently have the website code under MIT license, but the MIT license is generally used for code. For the actual writing content, it would probably be better to use a license like CC-BY-4.0. Since the website is at a very early stage, I'm thinking that it would be easier to make this license change now rather than later.
In particular, I propose:
- The existing website code, configuration, and supporting technical files are licensed under MIT.
- Written text files (e.g. markdown files) and images are licensed under some creative commons license.
This license change would require us to get permission from the past contributors.
Thoughts? @rolandlo
That makes sense to me. I would agree to the license change. CC-BY-4.0 looks like a good choice for the written text files and images. Better now that we have to ask <=5 contributors than later when it gets more complicated.
I do agree, it does not seem like a problem for me.
¡I agree with the relicensing!
We require the permission from a few more authors:
I also agree to relicensing to CC-BY-4.0
I agree with the relicensing
We require the permission from a few more authors:
I also agree to relicensing to CC-BY-4.0
I agree.
@arjun-krishna1 please give your go-ahead as well!
The only modification that @arjun-krishna1 made is a typo fix, which is probably too minor to be copyrightable in any jurisdiction.
Okay then we should go ahead with the relicensing.