Re: [eigen] legal question

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On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2010/8/3 Rodney Sparapani <rsparapa@xxxxxxx>:
>> On 08/ 3/10 10:58 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you mean the doxygen-generated class docs? What is the problem with
>>> CC-BY on them?
>>>
>>> Also, isn't it better to have a single license governing all our docs,
>>> so that e.g. an archive of all our docs would be governed by a single
>>> license?
>>>
>>> Benoit
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>> Hi Benoit:
>>
>> Having worked on several FOSS projects, it seems that one license is best,
>> especially for things like snippets which have already been brought
>> up in this thread.  By the way, I must have missed it, but was there
>> some reason that MIT or BSD licenses were not considered?
>
> No particular reason: it felt natural to consider CC for docs, but you
> seem to be right: there is no problem about releasing docs under
> MIT/BSD license, is there?
>
> That would be a nice choice, because if we choose a very liberal
> license for our docs for the sake of simplicity, then nothing beats
> MIT/BSD in this respect.

yes the MIT license seems to be well appropriate here.

gael

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> Benoit
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>> Rodney Sparapani       Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
>> Sr. Biostatistician               http://www.mcw.edu/pcor
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