On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 12:33:52PM +0200 or thereabouts, Sven Vermeulen wrote:
> This policy has a couple of important changes, the most important probably
> being the mandatory use of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
> license, something several of our users requested.

Why that license instead of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
license?

> We will convert our current documentation to CC-AS but we first need to find
> out if we just need approval of the Gentoo managers, or the approval of every
> author/contributor.

As I understand it, the copyright for our documentation (as well as any
written document) is held by the author unless they specifically assign it
to Gentoo Linux.  So, we will likely need to get the approval of every
author, at least, though perhaps not every contributor.

--kurt