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Licensing our website content under a Creative Commons license
Well, eventually the content of the computer science club website will have parts desired by other people. Whether it's using screen shots or text from our Open Source Lab like John's Linux Terminal Server documentation or our Open Source at UST section, it may be desirable for others to use.
Our rights to this content are "all rights reserved" by default under current copyright law. I propose us only reserving some rights under a Creative Commons License. I propose this one:
But you can all build one at http://creativecommons.org/license/ and tell me what you think. I'd like to see the site's content under Creative Commons of some sort though.
Sound off and let me hear what you guys think :)
I like open content
Creative Commons is good. Open content allows more access and freedoms to stuff.
If not Creative Commons then perhaps the OpenContent license. Red Hat and the Fedora Project have adopted it for documentation.
I personally will license most of my stuff under something like this, but keep in mind that each author has to agree to how they release it. (Though IANAL, particularly not with copyright.)
Perhaps the website could use some functionality that allows us to tag certain pages as being under a certain license.
Of course simplest would be a statement of assume CC unless otherwise stated.
Let's make it official for me.
Let's make it official for me.
All my stuff on this site, unless stated otherwise, is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
Let's look at installing the
Let's look at installing the Creative Commons Module.