[coreboot] Coreboot wiki: what license is the content under?

[David Hendricks]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Sam Kuper <sam.kuper at uclmail.net> wrote:
> Also, to further address Patrick's point above about marketing
> material: it is important that the provenance of information about
> Coreboot can be established. This is a reputational matter. That means
> it is important that people should not legally be able to misrepresent
> Coreboot contributors' views, etc,

Both CC-BY and CC-BY-SA have "no endorsement" clauses, and the source
of derived materials will still be easily traced back to coreboot.org
(or archive.org or wherever).

> or claim Coreboot contributors'
> work as their own.

Both BY and BY-SA licenses require attribution.

>
> [1] How so? Because a licensee who creates a derivative work of a CC
> BY-licensed work can license that derivative under terms (e.g. CC-0)
> that would allow *their* licensees do potentially misattribute or
> otherwise create reputational risk without fear of breaching licensing
> terms.

Section 3.A.4 of the BY license covers that: "If You Share Adapted
Material You produce, the Adapter's License You apply must not prevent
recipients of the Adapted Material from complying with this Public
License."

So distributing a derived work with a different license does not
nullify the original terms.