AW: [wp-docs] what about a license?

Christian Balzer TigerDE2 at web.de
Mon Jan 12 11:27:10 CST 2004


OK then.
(Though I never really looked at it... ;o) )
But we should create a "human readable version" as CC does to accompany
it... :)
Christian 

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: docs-bounces at wordpress.org 
> [mailto:docs-bounces at wordpress.org] Im Auftrag von Matthew Mullenweg
> Gesendet: Montag, 12. Januar 2004 13:48
> An: Mailing list for discussing and developing WordPress 
> documentation.
> Betreff: Re: [wp-docs] what about a license?
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > docs mailing list
> > docs at wordpress.org
> > http://wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/docs_wordpress.org
> 
> _______________________________________________
> docs mailing list
> docs at wordpress.org
> http://wordpress.org/mailman/listinfo/docs_wordpress.org




More information about the docs mailing list