Bug #3938

docs license?

Added by Dmitry Smirnov almost 6 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:ClosedStart date:08/16/2015
Priority:NormalDue date:
Assignee:Jaime Melis% Done:

0%

Category:Documentation
Target version:Release 4.14
Resolution:fixed Pull request:
Affected Versions:OpenNebula 4.12

Description

As reported in https://github.com/OpenNebula/docs/issues/30

Please add license and copyright statement to `README.md`.
Assuming the same license as OpenNebula it would be something like

Copyright 2002-2015 OpenNebula Project (OpenNebula.org), C12G Labs

 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.

It might be a good idea to commit the full text of the license as well.

Thank you.

History

#1 Updated by Ruben S. Montero almost 6 years ago

  • Category set to Documentation
  • Assignee set to Jaime Melis
  • Target version set to Release 4.14

#2 Updated by Jaime Melis almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from Pending to Closed
  • Resolution set to fixed

#3 Updated by Dmitry Smirnov almost 6 years ago

I can't adequately express my disappointment regarding choice of a non-free (non-commercial) license CC-BY-SA-NC-3.0.

I doubt that non-commercial restriction is necessary. In particular this means that we won't be able to ship OpenNebula documentation in Debian. :(

Please reconsider.

https://github.com/OpenNebula/docs/blob/master/LICENSE

#4 Updated by Jaime Melis almost 6 years ago

Changed to CC-BY-SA

#5 Updated by Dmitry Smirnov almost 6 years ago

That's better, thanks.

However Copyright statement is still missing...

Also license grant uses non-canonical wording -- see https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license#How_to_use_the_CC_License_Chooser for instructions how to apply CC licenses.

Recommended text is "This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License."

Finally, the latest version of CC licenses is 4.0, not 3.0...

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