Future direction of Ubuntu Documentation/Meeting times

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Sean Wheller" date="Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:03:58AM +0200">
> With regard to licensing issues. I see no reason to change the
> licensing we currently have. These licenses were agree by mako and
> sabdfl. They are standard licenses and widely used throughout the
> community.
>
> The argument that Debian won't accept does not cut it. Ubuntu docs
> do not move upstream since they are not Debian. It was never
> intended that Ubuntu docs would write and push upstream. If people
> wish to do so, then I think they should move upstream.

I think that pushing upstream, and in particular to Debian, is a very
good idea and something we should strive to allow.

More importantly, licensing under a CC-BY-SA license will be
acceptable by Debian in the very near future as the next version of
the CC license will (we are quite confident) be DFSG free and fully
acceptable by the Debian project. The high probability of this
happening was one reason why I advocated the GFDL and CC-BY-SA
licensing scheme for documents that we create from scratch within
Ubuntu.

Regards,
Mako


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