License for Markdown Syntax Documentation

[Matt Kraai]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 09:27:42AM -0800, Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote:

> On 11/27/05, Matt Kraai <kraai at ftbfs.org> wrote:

> >

> > Would you please release

> > this documentation under the same license as the rest of Markdown or

> > under another license that meets the Debian Free Software Guidelines?

> 

> I'd suggest a [CC license], since it's documentation and not code...

> likely [by] or [by-sa]. (The nc (non-commercial) and nd (no

> derivatives) licenses would violate guidelines 6 and 3 respectively)

> -Joe

> 

> [CC license]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

> [by]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

> [by-sa]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/


I'm not positive, but I don't believe the any of the CC licenses meet
the DFSG.  I've heard that there's work ongoing to make the new
versions of some of them compatible.  If you're interested in using
one of them, I can check with debian-legal.

-- 
Matt
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