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Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our  
Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our  
documentation from the Open Publication License to a Creative Commons
documentation and project content from the Open Publication License to a Creative  
Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached  
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Docs originally  
a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering  
reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering  
questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with  
questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with  
the transition.
the transition.

Revision as of 23:56, 4 September 2009

This stuff is totally a work in progress and you should help make it better. Thanks!

To send to Creative Commons and press peeps

The Fedora Project, a global community leading the advancement of free,
open software and content, today finalized the conversion of the licensing 
of its documentation and wiki to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
3.0 Unported License, also known as CC-BY-SA. This content was formerly licensed under
the Open Publication License.

Every six months, the Fedora Project produces a Linux distribution, as
well as supporting documentation for each release.  A project of this size has a large 
amount of process, boilerplate, and useful content beyond technical documentation.
Moving to CC-BY-SA allows for wider reach of this documentation and content as more
people understand that they can share and remix it in the same ways they can the software
included in Fedora.

To send to fedora-announce-list

Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our 
documentation and project content from the Open Publication License to a Creative 
Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). Docs originally 
reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering 
questions raised by the community, the Docs team decided to go ahead with 
the transition.

We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and
Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion. We
hope it brings greater interoperability with free documentation.