X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2013-06-27

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, 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?

Yes.

It seems like this was dicussed before maybe in 2007, but I can't find 
now.

By using standard license, we can easier move content to and from the 
source tree (like to man pages).