[Server-devel] License for XS work?

[Tony Pearson]

Team,
Is there a "preferred" open source license for our scripting 
contributions?  I see that Ixo (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ixo/Script)
chose CC-BY-SA-NC which is not very compatible with GPL and surprised it 
to be used in this manner.  I normally associate
Creative Commons with creating content, photography, music, and so on, not 
open source code.  It would seem that any script
under CC-BY-SA-NC can't be pre-installed on any XO laptop sold by OLPC, it 
would always have to be installed individually afterwards.

I thought of this today when I heard about the problems over at the 
OpenSolaris community:
http://www.ratliff.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/

Having lived through the IBM/SCO lawsuit debacle, I want to make sure we 
are doing something everyone can agree to. 
I suggest GPL v3 unless someone else has a better suggestion, which would 
allow scripts we develop to be incorporated
into future XO or XS machines sold by OLPC.

Thanks





Tony Pearson
Senior Storage Consultant, IBM System Storage™
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