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Command-line tools for working with Architecture Decision Records
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Content licensing? #85

Closed milibopp closed 4 years ago

milibopp commented 5 years ago

I am somewhat confused by this clause in the LICENSE.txt

Content that this tool adds to your project is under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence.

Does this only apply to the automatically generated phrasing of the ADRs? It surely does not apply to the content that you fill in, does it? It may be helpful to clarify this.

npryce commented 5 years ago

My thinking was that it applies to the initial ADR, so that if a project publishes its ADRs, it doesn't get embroiled in IP issues. I don't think that the document structure, section titles, etc. in the ADR templates are something that can be copyrighted or need licensing.

PeterMTaylor commented 5 years ago

Although not part of ADR however food for thought regarding content license https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchange-and-stack-overflow-are-moving-to-cc-by-sa-4-0