Re: overhauling the manual (was pyblosxom 1.4 status)

"John Gabriele" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pyblosxom.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/23/07, will <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/23/07, Ryan Barrett <pyblosxom-6sb6M7qyT/[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 May 2007, will wrote:
> >
> > >   :Author: PyBlosxom Development Team
> > >   :Version: $Id$
> > >   :Copyright: This document has been placed in the public domain.
> >
> > so, pyblosxom uses the MIT license. is there a documentation license that's
> > commonly used with MIT license projects? if so, it might be nice to use that,
> > for consistency. otherwise, public domain sounds good to me.
>
> [snip]
>
> Going back to your question, I don't know what the answer is.  The MIT
> license is pretty hands-off.  I don't know too many documentation
> licenses.  We could use a creative commons license--I'm sure one of
> the combinations would match the MIT license.
>

The MIT license explicitly specifies that it applies to "this software
and associated documentation files", so if you're happy with the terms
as applied to the code then I'd say it's probably a solid choice as
the license for the docs as well.

---John

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