Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: What license should docs be released under?

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Posted by Kjell Wooding on

Just a quick nit:

As of now, our docs do not have an official license. This is prolly a Bad Thing considering work that people contribute to the documentation are not protected and reside in the public domain.

The lack of a license does not mean public domain. (far from it). It means the standard copyright regulations apply, since copyright is implicit in Berne Convention countries. In other words, the problem is the opposite: works with copyright but without an accompanying license may not be modified/redistributed without the permission of the author.