Not technically open source, because I don't know which license is best for regular text, but I just put a Creative Commons Sharealike license on the WordPress.com terms of service and Automattic privacy policy. People were stealing them anyway, might as well make it legit. đŸ™‚ Feel free to grab bits and pieces and search/replace your company/project in. If you want to throw us a link as a thank you, I'd be flattered.
I have never understood why people steal privacy policies becuase there are several FREE services that allow you to create one. There is even one service which for $35 will have one drafted by a “lawyer.”
Ok, that’s truely awesome. I’m working on a project, and can definately use that as a basis.
Thanks in advance.
FYI http://automattic.com/dmca/ goes to
500 Internal Server Error.
Technically, none of the Creative Commons licenses are “open source”, if by “open source” you mean “OSI-certified”. Also, none of them are Free Software (according to the Free Software Foundation), and none of them comply with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (according to debian-legal).
I’ve used the GPL for documentation; just make it clear what the original material (“source code”) is. If that’s just XHTML, so be it.
You can also look at the FreeBSD Documentation License.
We use the GPL for documentation in WP, but that has always seemed sketchy. Thanks for the additional info.
People were stealing them anyway, might as well make it legit. –> Nice one, Matt! đŸ™‚
I hope to give you some help. I know that the FDL (Free Documentation License), which has created a lot of problems, will be substituted by FSF with a new License for elettronic text in second-term of 2007.
I can tell you more but the new license will solve a lot of problems of Creative Commons too; which in some points are confusing about the freedom which want to defend.
Thanks for your attention.