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Figure out the license of the content repo #408

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peterbe opened this issue Mar 25, 2020 · 4 comments
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Figure out the license of the content repo #408

peterbe opened this issue Mar 25, 2020 · 4 comments
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peterbe commented Mar 25, 2020

When this repo becomes Yari, we'll have all the content here. The stuff that's currently in a centralized MySQL database.
stumptown-content is similar in that stuff that used to be in MySQL is now in Markdown files inside the repo.

We need to figure out the right LICENSE and stuff for this repo too.
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peterbe commented Sep 15, 2020

What the work now involves is to:

  1. Pick the right license for the content
  2. Edit this file: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/LICENSE
  3. Edit this file: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/package.json#L5

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peterbe commented Sep 15, 2020

The https://spdx.org/licenses/ lists variant of "CC-BY-SA" but nothing's called exactly that. They're all with a suffix of a version number.

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From my reading of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/About#Copyrights_and_licenses, I suspect we're going to need to specify three licenses for the https://github.com/mdn/content repo:

  • a license for the documentation content (excluding the code-samples and snippets): CC-BY-SA (perhaps the latest version: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
  • two licenses to cover the code-samples and snippets:
    • CC0 license for everything added on or after August 20, 2010
    • MIT license for everything added before August 20, 2010

We've started an email conversation with the Mozilla legal department to answer these questions.

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peterbe commented Sep 28, 2020

This has been done. When we create the archived-content and translated-content we'll apply the same there.

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