Re: Licensing in-product help articles on sumo

David Tenser wrote:
> Add to that the fact that some of the work is based on my original 
> content, and I was never asked to approve an MPL license on that text. 
> That's probably just good in this case, though, since that means we can 
> apply whatever license we want for those files, right?

If you own the copyright, yes, you can choose what licence you like, as 
long as no-one else has contributed to the file.

>> Relicensing is time-consuming and messy. What advantage do we get from 
>> doing it? If we are going to relicense, please ask for CC-BY-SA 3.0 
>> _or_later_ rather than just 3.0. Makes things much more future-proof.
> 
> This doesn't sound like a pressing issue to me. Just adding the current 
> license at the end of these articles should work for now. Please correct 
> me if I'm wrong, though.

That's certainly legal :-)

> The CC-BY-SA _or later_ sounds like a separate discussion that I'd like 
> to find out more about before commenting on here.

It's what we do for DevMo; it's because new versions of CC licences 
often have useful features. For example, the next one might have GFDL 
compatibility.

Gerv