Licensing

[Matthew East]

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* Corey Burger:
> On 11/7/06, Bhuvaneswaran <bhuvan at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What do people think about the best way to go ahead with this?
>> It's a very good decision. When we decide to make this change in all
>> our documents, i think we should also consider to move to latest
>> CC-By-SA 2.5 license from 2.0 license.
>>
>> I'm not very clear about the difference between them. But from very
>> first look, i see they have re-organized the restrictions section 4b.
>>
>> [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode
>> [2] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode
> 
> Actually, we already distributing them under the latest version of the
> CC, as per the legal code:
> You may distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly
> digitally perform a Derivative Work only under the terms of this
> License, a later version of this License with the same License
> Elements as this License, or a Creative Commons iCommons license that
> contains the same License Elements as this License (e.g.
> Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Japan).
> 
> note the bit about the later license.

Actually, that applies to derivative works. But I agree with Bhuvan, we
should update to the latest license while we are at it.

Matt
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