About licenses

[GinTon]

When I began to create several tables of data for the globalization I
wanted to use a license of CC because GPL or BSD are more specific of
software. I repeat, a license for data.

http://satchmo.python-hosting.com/browser/trunk/satchmo/G11n/data/
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/

After of a little discussing here
http://groups.google.com/group/django-ecommerce/browse_thread/thread/ed90b6f909964621/087cb9f3da54c60c

it did not matter to me to use the New BSD license, although I would
prefer to use the following one of CC who is compatible with BSD and
not viric (it's different of avobe)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

But David Pratt demands in the next message the exclusive use of the
BDS license
http://groups.google.com/group/django-ecommerce/tree/browse_frm/thread/ed90b6f909964621/768c2c4fc956dd2e?rnum=31&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fdjango-ecommerce%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fed90b6f909964621%3Ftvc%3D1%26#doc_d39bacb4bcd0093a

and my surprise has been great when I have seen that to the projects of
google that license is not demanded to them althought it is advised
http://code.google.com/soc/django/about.html

Then:

1) Has more preference the contributors of Google summer code that the
one independents?
2) Is possible use licenses compatibles con BSD as MIT or CC-by?

[GinTon]

[GinTon]

[GinTon]

Sorry this message was sent 3 times by a google error.

[Ian Holsman]

On 06/09/2006, at 11:19 PM, GinTon wrote:

>
> it did not matter to me to use the New BSD license, although I would
> prefer to use the following one of CC who is compatible with BSD and
> not viric (it's different of avobe)
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
>
> But David Pratt demands in the next message the exclusive use of the
> BDS license
> http://groups.google.com/group/django-ecommerce/tree/browse_frm/
> thread/ed90b6f909964621/768c2c4fc956dd2e?rnum=31&_done=%2Fgroup%
> 2Fdjango-ecommerce%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2Fed90b6f909964621%3Ftvc%
> 3D1%26#doc_d39bacb4bcd0093a

I'm not a lawyer, but it is my understanding that the Creative
Commons license is not viral in the slightest, and is complementary
to the source code license.
CC is on the copy/text, and is more a explicit granting of what is
permissible. (by default ALL text is copyrighted, and not copyable).
the only 'viral' in my reading is '4b

as long as chris (the owner of the ecommerce code) is happy with the
type of CC license you put in there it should be fine.
`

>
> and my surprise has been great when I have seen that to the
> projects of
> google that license is not demanded to them althought it is advised
> http://code.google.com/soc/django/about.html
>
> Then:
>
> 1) Has more preference the contributors of Google summer code that the
> one independents?
> 2) Is possible use licenses compatibles con BSD as MIT or CC-by?

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[James Bennett]

On 9/6/06, GinTon <jon...@softhome.net> wrote:
> 1) Has more preference the contributors of Google summer code that the
> one independents?

For the students who did SoC projects, they of course can choose any
license they want. But if they want their projects to be merged into
Django proper, they need to license the code to use under something
compatible with the BSD-style Django license.

--
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
-- George Carlin

[GinTon]

Ian Holsman wrote:
> the only 'viral' in my reading is '4b
> as long as chris (the owner of the ecommerce code) is happy with the
> type of CC license you put in there it should be fine.
>

The '4b' section simply leaves the author attribution very clear
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/legalcode

"Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by
the author or licensor."

It would be the same that in your BSD license:
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/LICENSE

"Copyright (c) 2005, the Lawrence Journal-World
All rights reserved.

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice,..."