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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting to see that there are accommodations to make CC and FDL compatible:

Q. What are the changes in FDL 1.3?
A. The primary change is the addition of section 11. This new
provision allows certain materials released under this license to also
be used under the terms of CC-BY-SA 3.0

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-1.3-faq.html

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jason Pickering
> <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Currently, we really do not have any licensing on the documentation.
>> This is probably not a very good idea. I raise this issue, because of
>> some other questions about licensing of the GIS module, and how this
>> may conflict with the DHIS2 BSD license.
>
> Thanks for bringing up the issue - my feeling is as free as possible.
>
>> Anyway, I think we should consider using this..
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html
>
> A possibly better known license is Creative Commons, I guess - but I
> haven't looked deeply enough to tell which one would be best for us.
> Bob will likely have some opinions?
>
>> Not really sure in this case who the copyright holder would be
>> however? "DHIS2 Documentation Team"? "HISP"? "University of Oslo"?
>
> I think we could use University of Oslo, since the others are quite vague?
>
> Knut
>
>> Comments?
>>
>>
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>> Jason P. Pickering
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>> tel:+260968395190
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> Cheers,
> Knut Staring
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Cheers,
Knut Staring