On 31.03.2017 18:17, Sam Kuper wrote:
On 30/03/2017, Patrick Georgi via coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org wrote:
I'd go with CC-BY for the simple reason that documentation acts as marketing material which should see the widest distribution possible.
This does not make sense to me. CC BY-SA would not hinder distribution of documentation.
Of course it would. The mere existence of two different licenses (CC BY / CC BY-SA) already implies that. If nobody had an issue with -SA, why would CC BY exist at all?
+1 to make everything new CC BY 4.0 by default.
People who dislike licensing their content that freely can publish elsewhere and set up a (CC-BY'd) link.
Having people publish content outside the wiki and link to it from the wiki would obviously lead to even more fragmentation of the documentation than Coreboot already suffers from, making Coreboot remain a project that requires a lot of effort to grok, and has slow uptake. (Cf. Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think".)
Surely it would be better to aim to make the Coreboot wiki a "one-stop shop" for information about Coreboot, as far as possible. This being so, Coreboot ought to avoid licensing choices that foreseeably fragment the documentation.
In any case, we can (and IMHO should) decouple the discussions about dealing with current content and about future licensing.
Are you really willing to potentially throw away *that* many hundreds of hours of volunteer documentation effort?
I am. With documentation it seems to be the same as with code: The more you blow it up, the more you hide the significant facts. Both should (almost) always be condensed. And most of the documentation in our wiki is outdated anyway.
Nico
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Nico Huber