[illumos-Developer] An inventory of OpenSolaris documentation

[Joerg Schilling]

Gary <gdriggs at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Public Doc License is somewhat similar to the Mozilla Public
> License except that it's geared primarily toward docs instead of code
> (hence its name). You can read the full text here:
> http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/PDL.html

This is not an approved OSS license and I am not sure on whether it could get 
approval.

>From the OpenSource definition:

5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

>From PDL:
Appendix
Public Documentation License Notice

The contents of this Documentation are subject to the Public Documentation 
License Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may only use this Documentation if you 
comply with the terms of this License. A copy of the License is available at 
__________________[Insert hyperlink].

The Original Documentation is _________________. The Initial Writer of the 
Original Documentation is ___________ Copyright (C)_________[Insert year(s)]. 
All Rights Reserved. (Initial Writer contact(s):________________[Insert 
hyperlink/alias]).

Contributor(s): ______________________________________.

Portions created by ______ are Copyright (C)_________[Insert year(s)]. All 
Rights Reserved. (Contributor contact(s):________________[Insert 
hyperlink/alias]).

NOTE: The text of this Appendix may differ slightly from the text of the 
notices in the files of the Original Documentation. You should use the text of 
this Appendix rather than the text found in the Original Documentation for Your 
Modifications.



This is not usefriendly and it may get into problems if this could be read as 
discriminations against people who cannot reveal their original identity, mail 
address, etc.


Jörg

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