Fwd: Plone documentation license

Morning docteam,

Please see attached query from Wichert Akkerman who is not on this list.

Matt


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
> Date: 20 August 2009 10:55:57 BST
> To: Matthew Wilkes <[email protected]>
> Subject: Fwd: Plone documentation license
>
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Plone documentation license
> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:53:04 +0200
> From: Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>
> To: Plone Docs List <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
> , Geir Bækholt · Jarn <[email protected]>,  Plone Foundation Board <[email protected] 
> >
>
> For a project I'm working on we want to produce documentation,  
> including
> some basic instructions on how to use Plone. We would like to use some
> of the content from plone.org/documentation as a basis but I could not
> find any license information for them.
>
> Can someone please clarify:
>
> * who owns the copyright? the website footer says the foundation does,
>  but there is no contributor agreement for documentation nor a set of
>  terms you have to agree to when signing up for a plone.org account,
>  which makes me believe the copyright is effectively not owned by the
>  foundation but by the contributors.
>
> * what is the intended license? I can not find any information in the
>  documentation section itself, the plone license FAQ or anywhere else.
>
> Wichert.


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