X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2013-06-27

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Jul  4, 2013 at 16:51:11 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 11:22:47PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:21:39 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > 
> > > The X.org wiki currently did not have a formal license for contributions.
> > > Future contributions will be under CC-BY-SA [1], it is to be determined
> > > whether a license can be applied to contributions made before today.
> > > https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
> > > 
> > Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason not to go with the
> > standard X license instead?
>  
> there wasn't a long discussion on this as everyone was fine with CC-BY-SA
> once it was suggested. I personally go with the "good enough for wikipedia,
> good enough for us" argument :)
> 
> Do you think the standard X license is preferable?
> 
Mostly it would make it easier to copy things from the wiki to our
documentation.  I'm fine with cc-by-sa 3.0 though, and I appreciate the
board tackling this issue.

Cheers,
Julien