X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2013-06-27

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 06:48:12PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> 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.

good point, I'll bring this up at next week's meeting, thanks (also thanks
to Jeremey).

Cheers,
   Peter