[wp-docs] what about a license?

[Craig Hartel]

How about a bit more research on this? What does Mozilla.org do, for
example? I think Mozilla.org is a legal entity, so it has certain rights and
obligations. Does anybody have a lawyer in the family to help advise?

Craig.

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From: docs-bounces at wordpress.org [mailto:docs-bounces at wordpress.org] On
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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 3:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [wp-docs] what about a license?


Matthew Mullenweg wrote:
> 
> Yuck. What about public domain, no rights reserved?
>...

Hypothetically, WordPress becomes moderately popular -- about as popular as
Movable Type is now. Someone then uses the public domain WordPress
documentation as a starting point to write a copyrighted /WordPress for
dummies/ (compare <http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/067232590X>).

Publication of the book causes WordPress to become even more popular, BUT
while the book borrowed from the original documentation (because it was
public domain), new versions of the documentation can't borrow from the book
(because it's copyrighted).

So, which is more important? If increasing the number of WordPress users is
more important, choose a public domain license. If minimizing future
documentation effort is more important, choose a copyleft license.

-- 
Matthew Thomas


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