From 397f1cbc7625b76832e3a6d41ebd7cd871c8cbc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PaulePanter Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:47:30 +0000 Subject: What license for themes for distribution in ikiwiki? --- doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn (limited to 'doc/plugins/theme') diff --git a/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8c834e701 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +### What license do themes need to have for distribution? + +Could someone specify what license the themes need to have to get distributed in ikiwiki or Debian? The current included theme seem to be under the GPLv2. Does the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) also work. This way a lot of free CSS templates could be included, e. g. from [freecsstemplates.org](http://www.freecsstemplates.org/). -- cgit v1.2.3 From 44e286de2eed96c223d07b53e8038c8a61d1cdec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:51:50 -0400 Subject: response --- doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/plugins/theme') diff --git a/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn index 8c834e701..091aa97c1 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/theme/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ ### What license do themes need to have for distribution? -Could someone specify what license the themes need to have to get distributed in ikiwiki or Debian? The current included theme seem to be under the GPLv2. Does the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) also work. This way a lot of free CSS templates could be included, e. g. from [freecsstemplates.org](http://www.freecsstemplates.org/). +Could someone specify what license the themes need to have to get +distributed in ikiwiki or Debian? The current included theme seem to be +under the GPLv2. Does the [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported +License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) also work. This way a +lot of free CSS templates could be included, e. g. from +[freecsstemplates.org](http://www.freecsstemplates.org/). --PaulePanter + +> Paule, I'd love it if you did that! The only hard requirement on themes +> included in ikiwiki is that they need to be licensed with a [DFSG +> compatable license](https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses). CC-BY-SA 3.0 +> is DFSG; CC-BY is apparently being accepted by Debian too. +> +> As a soft requirement, I may exersise some discretion about themes that +> require obtrusive attributions links be included on every page of a +> site using the theme. While probably DFSG, that adds a requirement +> that ikiwiki itself does not require. --[[Joey]] -- cgit v1.2.3