(Dropping Cc on -project, adding To to -legal. If you reply, please maintain the Cc list) Hi debian-legal, On 29/05/08 at 13:54 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 01:51:33PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > I'm not sure what would be the best practical license for DEPs, so I'm > > hesitant to recommend one at this point. Perhaps one of the Creative > > Commons ones? The current batch has some free ones, right? > > If we really want to provide a default, an interesting one would be a > license which requires changing title/authorship upon changes, just to > distinguish the "official" DEP document from derivatives. I've no idea > if something free like that exists or not, but in principle it doesn't > look like that different from DFSG-free licenses requiring the > distribution in patch format (or maybe we can directly go for one of > them?). > > Note that this is not a requirement, as the official DEP document will > always be available from dep.debian.net, but as a default it would make > sense. We are looking for a license that could be recommended as a "default" license for DEPs in DEP0. The subthread on -project starts with http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/05/msg00066.html The basic requirements are: (AFAIK) - not copylefted, so we can include the document in another document - suitable for documents - require changing title/authorship upon changes (see above) Could you recommend one? Thank you, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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