On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:31:35PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi guys, > > It's me again :-) > I asked my team aobut using a dual license, GPL / CC-BY. So far the > response has been good. Several people have said "yay" and no one has said > "nay". We are currently drafting the copyright notice. Some people wanted > to make the terms clearer. So this is what I came up with: > > > This document is Copyright 2004 by its contributors as defined in > the section titled Authors. You can distribute it and/or modify it > under the terms of either the GNU General Public License, version 2 > or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), or the Creative > Commons Attribution License, version 2.0 or later > (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). > > > I have now been asked to run this by you. To see if anyone here sees a > problem with it. In particular, someone was wondering if we were required > to add "under the terms of" before "the Creative Commons...". I wouldn't think so. I would guess that someone's parser is putting the wrong precedence on things, like so: ((under the terms of either the GPL) or CC-BY) or (either (under the terms of the GPL) or (CC-BY)) instead of (under the terms of either (the GPL) or (CC-BY)). I don't think it's a major problem -- as you note, Perl has identical wording, and it reads pretty easily to me as-is. About the only possible problem I could envisage would be with tying the either to the 'or' in "GPLv2 or later" instead of the 'or' in "or the CC-BY", but the comma should put paid to that. - Matt
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