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License for the user guide #134

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IAlibay opened this issue Feb 10, 2021 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #363
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License for the user guide #134

IAlibay opened this issue Feb 10, 2021 · 6 comments · May be fixed by #363

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@IAlibay
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IAlibay commented Feb 10, 2021

So I might not be looking at the right place, but as far as I can tell the user guide doesn't directly declare any type of license.

I guess the assumption is that it inherits MDA's GPLv2 license?

Given that the user guide is a really good teaching resource, I think it might be good to make it clear as to what the license is so that folks can be more confident in using parts of it in derivative works where possible.
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RMeli commented Feb 18, 2021 •
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Given that it is more text than code, is it worth thinking about a CC license as well?

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I think a CC license would be the most appropriate. However, the user guide is backed quite a bit by docstring and those have been contributed under GPL. That may be an issue.

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IAlibay commented Feb 18, 2021

Ideally a CC-BY4 license would be most appropriate, but I agree with @jbarnoud if anything in the userguide is taken out of the docs verbatum we'd probably have to adhere to GPL. @lilyminium might have a better view of things here, but maybe it's one of those we should be asking the numfocus folks?

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RMeli commented Feb 18, 2021

I was thinking more about a dual license model that I've seen multiple times in this scenario: CC for text and GPL for code? CC-BY-SA is reasonably aligned with GPL (I think).

Of course if you have access to NumFocus advice, they will probably know already how to handle this.

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I was thinking more about a dual license model that I've seen multiple times in this scenario: CC for text and GPL for code? CC-BY-SA is reasonably aligned with GPL (I think).

If we can do that then that sounds like the best solution to me

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Sounds good.

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Add LGPL and CC-BY-SA LICENSE MDAnalysis/UserGuide
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