[wp-docs] what about a license?

[Matthew Mullenweg]

I think we should really use the GNU documentation license.

--Matt
http://photomatt.net || http://wordpress.org


Christian Balzer wrote:
> Hi!
> I just noticed that we haven't yet decided about a suitable license for 
> the wp docs.
> Maybe we should do that better sooner than later.
> The idea to release it under the public domain sounds good at first but 
> might not work.
> I'm not sure what it means exactly, but I'm pretty sure it won't work 
> for all of us.
> (I might be wrong but public domain licenses don't exist over in 
> Germany, so it might cause troubles if Germans post something. If I'm 
> right, the license would be invalid for them and they had still the 
> copyright on their work. It might be a better idea to pick a license 
> which is applicable everywhere for everyone. The CC license is being 
> ported to a multitude of countries. (And I'm sure Germany will join  
> pretty soon.) So that might be a good idea.)
> Anyway: See http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/WordPressWiki for a few 
> more details...
> Christian
> 
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