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Re: Licensing content was: Software RAID-1: a documented trail



Nicolas Marchildon wrote:
| [...] I tried to summarize the steps I took in a web page:
|
| http://nicolas.marchildon.net/linux/toraid/
|
| [...] I found out over the years that when I have a hard problem, I
| often end up on dark, unknown web sites where one had documented what he
| did. [...]

Hi Nicolas,

I also love dark, unknown sites packed with very detailed information.
Particularly when I've been looking for it everywhere else :)

I've found myself in 4AM-last-minute situations when looking for information
for commercial purposes (re-printing, re-distributing during courses, etc.)
and had to wait for permission/licensing information to use such valuable
information. You may want to include information on how to license your
content, perhaps by releasing your documentation under a specific license
(even if you consider it very "alpha";) ).

I'd suggest maybe the The GNU Free Documentation License [1] or Creative
Commons [2], or maybe just adding a simpler disclaimer to make it clear how
others can use it. Sometimes it'll make your information travel more places,
faster :)

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL
[2] http://creativecommons.org/

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