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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: Supporting CC-BY-SA 3.0 and later versions
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:01:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111129130101.GA5918@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2011.11.29.01.11.41@cox.net>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 01:11:41AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> What about a mechanism (in-doc comments or the like) that would allow 
> existing authors to indicate that they're OK (or not) with a future 
> upgrade to CC-BY-SA 3.0?

Something akin to GPL's "or later" clause? Perhaps.

> If authors on existing docs were encouraged to take advantage of such a 
> feature/policy as opportunity invited, it'd lessen the work to eventually 
> upgrade at least some existing docs, as well, tho it wouldn't help that 
> much for those no longer involved, who would in any case need to be 
> contacted manually before such an update.  But it would at least stop the 
> problem from getting worse, and would incrementally ease the work 
> necessary if someone eventually decided to actively try for an update.

I don't consider this as a "problem" per se, so I don't think we need to put
much effort in these things. Licenses evolve; documents too. Eventually,
old(er) documents will be replaced with newer ones anyhow. And it is not
that the 2.5 license has a major issue for us - it's just that 3.0 is
somewhat newer and used on the wiki.

Wkr,
	Sven Vermeulen



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-29 13:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-27 17:41 [gentoo-doc] Supporting CC-BY-SA 3.0 and later versions Sven Vermeulen
2011-11-28  3:11 ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2011-11-28 18:05   ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-11-28 20:21 ` Chema Alonso
2011-11-29  1:11   ` [gentoo-doc] " Duncan
2011-11-29 13:01     ` Sven Vermeulen [this message]
2011-11-29 15:19       ` wireless
2011-11-29 15:39         ` Sven Vermeulen
2011-11-30  2:19         ` Duncan
2011-11-29 21:00 ` [gentoo-doc] " Joshua Saddler

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