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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2015-08-25 23:22:59 +0200
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2015-09-29 09:05:35 +0200
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Hosted projects: Clarify that CC BY-SA should be used as license.
Bug: 558766
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@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ In practice, this means the following:
<p>
All hosted projects should use an appropriate open / free / libre license.
-Typically this will be the GPL v2 for software, and the Creative Commons license
-for documentation. However, reasonable exceptions can be made <d/> sometimes it
+Typically this will be the GPL v2 for software, and some version of the
+Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (CC-BY-SA-*) for documentation.
+However, reasonable exceptions can be made <d/> sometimes it
makes more sense to use the LGPL or a *BSD license, and for application-specific
projects going with the application's license may make more sense (the
<c>gentoo-syntax</c> package for <c>vim</c> uses the <c>vim</c> license, for example).