[Dovecot] Wiki license

[Richard Laager]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:52 +0100, Marcus Rueckert wrote:
> On 2007-12-16 22:43:18 +0200, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > a) GNU Free Documentation License
> > 
> > b) Creative Commons (Attribution-Share Alike?)
> > 
> > It could also be dual-licensed to both to maximize the distribution
> > possibilities.
> 
> CC Share Alike 3
> 
> GFDL has some sucking part about the license when using parts of the
> documentation.

I'm not sure if this would matter or not, but... Debian has previously
said that the CC licenses are not DFSG-free. From what I can see, no
opinion has been released on the version 3 licenses. See:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Version_3#Debian

A dual-license of GFDL (without invariant sections) and CC SA 3 should
be okay with Debian, though. (I'm not a DD and am not speaking for the
project.)

Dovecot is MIT & LGPL, so why not choose one of those? The only
down-side of an MIT license is that someone could take the work and put
it into a non-free product. With documentation, the biggest potential
problem would be someone making a Dovecot book.

If you're not worried about that, really a Public Domain declaration
should work. Here's what Wikipedia uses:
        
        This [content] has been released into the public domain by its
        author, [NAME]. This applies worldwide. In some countries this
        may not be legally possible; if so: [NAME] grants anyone the
        right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions,
        unless such conditions are required by law.

Richard
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