617140 - Define source code license list for demo room

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Demo Studio / Dev Derby, defect)

Description

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

We need to figure out which licenses we want to enable contributors to share their code under.

We want to support Github for sure, possible Bitbucket, which both should have their own list of licenses their users can apply.  What others do we want to enable for our demos?

An important feature to the demo room is the ability to download and hack on source code, as well as view and learn from it... so we need to make sure our users agree to abide by the licenses attached to the demos.

But what should that list be?

Comment 1

[Austin King [:ozten]]

CC-BY-SA Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 [DEFAULT]
CC-BY Createive Commons Attribution 3.0
CC-BY-NO Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0
CC-BY-NO-SA Createive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
MPL/GPL/LGPL
GPL
LGPL
BSD
Apache
AGPL
CC-BY-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDervis
CC-BY-NO-ND Creative Commons Attribution-NoDervis
Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL)
Public Domain
Other (N/A)

Comment 2

[Austin King [:ozten]]

It looks like github and bitbucket don't have license as project metadata.

Usually projects include a LICENSE file or mention the license in the README.

I think it's cool to promote the license as metadata to raise developer awareness around the issues.

Comment 3

[Jay Patel [:jay]]

CC'ing malexis so he can review the list with legal.

Thanks Ozten for the list.  It looks pretty exhaustive to me.  And I think the default CC is probably the best for the demos.

If that list works for legal, we should just put together the necessary language in our terms of service to cover how we expect users to accept and abide by the licenses associated with demos on the site.

If they suggest we use a subset of those, I think we'll be fine as well... as long as we cover the licenses most commonly used by web developers.

Comment 4

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

calling this closed