[Nix-dev] What license does the content of the nixos wiki and the manuals have?

[Jookia]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 09:28:36AM +0200, Joachim Schiele wrote:
> two problems i see here:
> - text can't be covered by GPL thus they created CC
> - some edits in the wiki are anonymous (whom to ask?)

> i like that we are adressing this issue now. it is very important.

> i'd go for CC BY SA 3.0
> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> as IMHO this fits the other licenses pretty well

I might as well chime in given I wrote
https://nixos.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_NixOS_on_ARM but had someone else upload it
as Tor users are blocked from editing but I still want to contribute.

People can use my contributions licensed under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 or GPLv3+. Text
can be covered by the GPL (there's no reason they can't, it's a copyright
license at heart.) I'm not sure why you'd choose a 3.0 license when 4.0 is out.
I've heard 4.0 solves a lot of internalization problems too.

There's some people talking about copyleft licenses requirng you to disclose
your work, which isn't true. You only have to disclose the source code to people
you distribute your work to, which seems fair to everyone involved.

If there's a consensus for another license or a copyright agreement, people
can take my contribution as CC0 and combine them in to the permissively
licensed work. IMHO copyright agreements are unneccesary unless you disagree on
the license chosen. In which case you should probably have chosen a license.