From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@sympa.inria.fr Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by sympa.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 486C77F7C3 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:35:28 +0100 (CET) Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of amc79@cam.ac.uk) identity=pra; client-ip=131.111.8.142; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="amc79@cam.ac.uk"; x-sender="amc79@cam.ac.uk"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of amc79@cam.ac.uk) identity=mailfrom; client-ip=131.111.8.142; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="amc79@cam.ac.uk"; x-sender="amc79@cam.ac.uk"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible Received-SPF: None (mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr: no sender authenticity information available from domain of postmaster@ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk) identity=helo; client-ip=131.111.8.142; receiver=mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr; envelope-from="amc79@cam.ac.uk"; x-sender="postmaster@ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk"; x-conformance=sidf_compatible X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgcCAGjj+FKDbwiOnGdsb2JhbABZg0SpHJZ4gRAWDgEBAQEBCAsJCRQogiUBAQEDAQEBAWkCCAMFCwtGIQYBLwYTFIddAwkIBAnAcg1Xh28XjGaBZDMHgySBFASVV2iDHossiHA X-IPAS-Result: AgcCAGjj+FKDbwiOnGdsb2JhbABZg0SpHJZ4gRAWDgEBAQEBCAsJCRQogiUBAQEDAQEBAWkCCAMFCwtGIQYBLwYTFIddAwkIBAnAcg1Xh28XjGaBZDMHgySBFASVV2iDHossiHA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,818,1384297200"; d="scan'208";a="57704617" Received: from ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.142]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 10 Feb 2014 15:35:19 +0100 X-Cam-AntiVirus: no malware found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from host81-149-102-120.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([81.149.102.120]:55454 helo=[10.0.0.152]) by ppsw-42.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.159]:587) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:amc79) (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) id 1WCrx8-0000H9-93 (Exim 4.82_3-c0e5623) (return-path ); Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:35:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.6 \(1510\)) From: Amir Chaudhry In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:35:18 +0000 Cc: Ashish Agarwal , Caml List Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: infrastructure X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1510) Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [ocaml-infra] ocaml.org licensing Ashish, thanks for sending this! To all, In the interests of keeping things manageable, I'd be grateful if w= e could keep any discussions on the Infrastructure list (infrastructure@lis= ts.ocaml.org). It's public and archived [1] and we're happy to summarise t= he main points for the caml-list in due course. Best wishes, Amir [1] http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/infrastructure On 10 Feb 2014, at 14:20, Ashish Agarwal wrote: > Dear all, >=20 > The content and implementation of the OCaml.org website do not have licen= ses specified, which should be fixed. Our goal is to encourage contribution= s, give appropriate credit to contributors, and maximize the utility of the= website for the entire OCaml community. We would like the community=92s fe= edback on the following proposal: >=20 > (A) Content is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 [1]. > (B) Code that implements the site is released under the ISC license [2]. > (C) Code examples within content are released under the UNLICENSE [3]. > (D) Design of the site. All rights reserved by the OCaml.org project. > (E) OCaml logo is released under the UNLICENSE [3]. > (F) Abstracts, slides from meetings. Rights retained by contributor. >=20 > Here is our reasoning for each of the above: >=20 > (A) Content refers to text that is visible by readers at http://ocaml.org= (except for code; see (C) below). We'd like others to be able to use these= materials but we don't want to create a situation where content that is fr= eely given to the community (which amounts to a substantive volume of work)= is then taken and monetized without giving back. >=20 > The CC BY-SA 4.0 license [1] allows anyone to share and adapt the work, i= ncluding for commercial gain, as long as that work is also released under t= he same (or compatible) license. This means that commercial works could be = produced but free versions would also have to be made available. Thus, the = community wouldn't lose out on any derivative work. >=20 > (B) Code that implements ocaml.org. We want the code implementing the sit= e to be open source and available for others to use as they wish. Examples = of this include the files found under the 'script' folder of the repository= [6]. The ISC licence [2] has already been chosen for OMD and MPP, two libr= aries that OCaml.org relies on substantially. Additional scripts are not pa= rticularly complex in nature, and we feel their use should not be restricte= d. >=20 > (C) Code examples within content. For example, you can see many of these = on the 99 problems page [5]. These are typically small pieces of useful cod= e and we want people to be able to use them however they see fit. We want t= o do this without the burden of attribution that an open source license (e.= g. ISC) would require, so placing them in the public domain seems like the = sensible thing to do. The UNLICENSE [3] is one way of putting works in the = public domain and is how code examples in Real World OCaml are released [4]. >=20 > (D) Design of the site. This is essentially the CSS, banner image, and cu= stom logos (except the OCaml logo, see (E) below). The design uniquely iden= tifies ocaml.org, and it would be awkward if another site looked similar. I= t seems sensible to reserve all rights over the design and disallow copying= it in any form. >=20 > (E) The new OCaml logo [7], which you see in the top-left of ocaml.org, s= hould be encouraged. We hope this can be a unifying symbol of all things re= lated to OCaml. Everyone should use this logo in their OCaml blogs, website= s, documentation, presentations, T-shirts, stickers, etc. Thus, it should b= e usable freely by all, which can be achieved by releasing it under the UNL= ICENSE. >=20 > (F) OCaml.org also hosts abstracts and slides for various meetings, such = as the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop. Contributors should retain all = rights over those works or be subject to whatever agreement they have with = the respective meeting. They are not considered part of the Content as defi= ned in (A). >=20 > [1] http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ > [2] http://opensource.org/licenses/ISC > [3] http://unlicense.org > [4] https://github.com/realworldocaml/examples/blob/master/UNLICENSE > [5] http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/99problems.html > [6] https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org > [7] http://ocaml.org/img/ocaml.png >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Infrastructure mailing list > Infrastructure@lists.ocaml.org > http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/infrastructure