[csw-maintainers] [POLICY] Policy-team, policy docs, licenses

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:
>
>> 2011/2/8 Maciej Bliziński <maciej at opencsw.org>:
>>> Peter (F) and Phil, since you've volunteered for the policy-team,
>>> could you review my proposed code change?
>>>
>>> http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2011-February/013970.html
>>>
>>
>> oh yikes. That brings up another issue... I dont recall that everyone
>> agreed on a "license" for our docs & policies.
>>
>> If you insist on copying things verbatim from the debian one, we may
>> get theirs imposed on us. the whole viralness of GPL.
>> If on the other hand, we dont copy, then we are free to choose our own
>> at a later date.
>
> The "viralness" of the GPL is almost FUD --- I say "almost" because
> IANAL.
>
> BTW, what's wrong with GPL concerning the document describing
> our policies?

Potentially nothing.
If everyone agrees to it, then nothing.
It's just wrong to force a choice on people.
There are some people out there (general public), who have voiced
unhappiness with the "GNU Free Documentation" license, for one thing.
They had specific technical reasons why, although unfortunatley I dont
remember the details.

Maciej writes:
>What do you suggest doing?

I suggest not copying from debian directly, but putting in our own
words. Then we dont have to fuss over licensing at all right now.
I also suggest that we could link to it, when and if long chunks are
useful, rather than copying.