Giving the authors of documentation a choice of licensing is a pretty
good incentive to contribute. I'm not sure what the reason is to force
new contributions under a ZPL software license or even a GFD license.<br><br>I think creative commons is a great idea since they specialize in all types of documents and range from very permissive to non-commercial share-alike. Creative commons licenses as well as being for documents proper are also easy to <a href="http://creativecommons.org/license/">select</a> and comprehend because they typically include an easy to understand <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">non-legal-jargon description</a> with links to the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/legalcode">legal code</a>.<br>
Another possible benefit is that Creative Commons licenses can be customized by country easily while being selected. You can choose a USA version or a Brazil version or any other of their many options.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 26, 2008 7:49 PM, Uli Fouquet <<a href="mailto:uli@gnufix.de">uli@gnufix.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there,<br><br>Martijn Faassen wrote:<br>[snip]<br><div class="Ih2E3d">> Would the Content Licensing add-on allow an easy way for people to set<br>> the desired license for the content? Or alternatively, any standard way<br>
> to include license info in a text using ReST?<br><br></div>For ReST a simple 'meta-tag' should do::<br><br> ===================<br> How To Smash Things<br> ===================<br><br> :Author: Grok<br>
<br> :License: ZPL 2.1<br><br>This could be handled special by the site in terms of layout/rendering<br>and in terms of site policy.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>--<br><font color="#888888">Uli<br></font><div>
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