Gregory Brown
7/27/2007 3:24:00 PM
On 7/27/07, Ken Bloom <kbloom@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:35:56 +0900, Brian Tol wrote:
>
> > [ANN] Rubypub.com - A Ruby Documentation Wiki
> >
> > Rubypub.com is custom-built documentation wiki for Ruby Gems. Features
> > of note:
>
> This should be very helpful. Thank you for the site.
+1 this looks beautiful
> > There's a few bugs, and probably more than a few warts, but it's
> > hopefully far enough along to get feedback.
> >
> > Near-term goals:
> >
> > 1. Nail down the licensing policy. Currently user-contributed
> > documentation is distributed under a Creative Commons
> > Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Licence, except where doing so would
> > conflict with the original licensing terms. This seems fair, but
> > feedback is very much appreciated, as I'm not a licensing guru.
>
> Easy: user-contributed documentation for a gem should be under the same
> license as the original gem (either that, or it should be in the public
> domain), that way the original author can incorporate good improvements
> without needing to worry about licensing conflicts.
In fact, you *need* to do this. You don't have the rights to assume
that documentation from gems are under any license other than what the
author stated for them, and if you choose something like CC by S/A
(which I think is a nice license), you'll need to be sure that every
single project you host is under license terms compatible with it, or
get permission from every author to license the combined works as
such. Sounds like a painful nightmare to me.
So your choices are to either have user contributions be under the
public domain or under the original license scheme. As a package
maintainer, I'd like to throw my vote towards the original license
scheme!
> 2. Stamp
> > out the bugs and finish a few outstanding features. Please use the
> > Rubypub Google Group [2] to submit issues and submit ideas. 3. Figure
> > out the best method of delivering contributed docs to authors. XML?
> > JSON? Patches? Ideas are appreciated.
Patches please. The XML and JSON won't be very helpful for quickly
applying the docs to my files.