Website content licensing

Kenny Duffus kenny at kde.org
Tue Sep 8 19:21:42 BST 2020


On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:07:14 BST Paul Brown wrote:
> On martes, 8 de septiembre de 2020 15:16:26 (CEST) Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 14:43:51 CEST Carl Schwan wrote:
> > > CC-BY-SA-4.0: this is the preferred license for the documentation but
> > > it is less problematic for sharing it, but it's still not a great feet
> > > for sharing it on a not FOSS related media.
> > 
> > *.krita.org is currently CC-BY-SA-3.0, not 4.0, but that's just because we
> > didn't update it:
> > 
> > https://krita.org/en/about/website/
> > 
> > We choose this because we explicitly do not want others to reuse the content
> > without worrying about copyright.
> 
> FWIW, dot.kde.org content is licensed under CC By 3.0, as is the content on 
> YouTube (the only  CC license available). I personally favour CC By SA, but I 
> do not have very strong feelings about this as long as attribution is 
> required.
> 

We have previously on a number of occasions been told by journalists that it needs to be CC BY only for them to be able to use. As stuff on the dot etc is things we want to reach the widest audience that seems fine

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	Kenny
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