Licensing

[Corey Burger]

On 11/7/06, Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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> After our discussion from a couple of months back, and discussion in the
> meeting, we resolved to move the license to a single CC-By-SA license.
> I'd like to move this on and start getting it implemented.
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> What do people think about the best way to go ahead with this?
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> I note that the copyright notice on all of our documents is "Canonical
> and members of the Ubuntu Documentation Project". As a result, it seems
> to me that it's perfectly acceptable for us to simple go ahead and make
> the change - since the group owns the copyright of the material, it can
> change the terms of its use.
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> Thoughts, objections?
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> Matt

I like the idea. Single licenses are a good thing. However, "the
Ubuntu doc team" is not a legal entity, thus the copyright is still
the owners, afaik, but you are the lawyer,

All this really means is that we are dropping one license, as all of
our stuff is currently dual licensed.

Corey