License

[markburns]

I think we have some lack of clarity on the license of this project. I'll try and dig out the original reference to the licensing as we are missing a license file on here.

As Peter Zotov @whitequark has kindly agreed us to use his translation under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/, and Aoki-san I believe originally gave his permission to the original Rubyforge project to be distributed under a Creative Commons licence.

We just need to verify this, and add the actual license to the project.

[yasulab]

:+1:

[ocha-]

:+1:

The most important requirements are 'Noncommercial' and not being published by a particular publisher. Since the files from the original Rubyforge svn repository are under a CC BY-NC-SA license, keeping it also as the license of this repository is natural.

[yasulab]

I've just dig out and found RHG is licensed in the following way.

1: The first post in RHG mailing list says Aoki-san, the author of RHG, personally gave Vincent a permission to post its translation.

Finally, I'd like to thank Minero AOKI for allowing me to post my translation of his book on the web. Thanks also to Laurent SANSONETTI for checking my translation, to Kouhei SUTOU for helping me understand some Japanese sentences, and to the Rubyforge guys for hosting us.

Here's the address: http://rhg.rubyforge.org

2: As you see in RHG in RubyForge, it's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5.

The original work is Copyright © 2002 - 2004 Minero AOKI. Translated by Vincent ISAMBART and Clifford Escobar CAOILE Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5

3: As @ocha- wrote in RHG mailing list in August, 2013, Aoki-san, the author of RHG, indirectly gave him the following permission.

After I finished to translate all the remaining part of Chapter 1-19, I thought It's a good thing to post them to this project. But because it's been years since this translation project has started, just in case, I (indirectly) asked the author for the permission to upload the translation when I went to Asakusa.rb.

What I know is, it is allowed unless it is intended to sell. Thus the creative commons license is important.

So, as long as distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5, I think it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure if it can be changed into Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States .

[markburns]

OK thanks for looking into that. Actually, it is right at the bottom of the readme. I had a quick scan for a file in the directory structure and hadn't seen it and as we had questions about the license earlier I thought I'd open this issue.

https://github.com/ruby-hacking-guide/ruby-hacking-guide.github.com/#license

So It is the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ anyway.

Just would like to confirm that @whitequark did mean this license when referring to CC-NC-SA https://github.com/ruby-hacking-guide/ruby-hacking-guide.github.com/pull/13#issuecomment-22544417

Then I think we can close this

On 13 August 2013 08:19, Yohei YASUKAWA notifications@github.com wrote:

I've just dig out and found RHG is licensed in the following way.

1. The first post in RHG mailing listhttp://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rhg-discussion/2006-March.txtsays Aoki-san, the author of RHG, personally gave Vincent a permission to post its translation.

Finally, I'd like to thank Minero AOKI for allowing me to post my translation of his book on the web. Thanks also to Laurent SANSONETTI for checking my translation, to Kouhei SUTOU for helping me understand some Japanese sentences, and to the Rubyforge guys for hosting us.

Here's the address: http://rhg.rubyforge.org

1. As you see in RHG in RubyForge http://rhg.rubyforge.org, it's licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ .

The original work is Copyright © 2002 - 2004 Minero AOKI. Translated by Vincent ISAMBART and Clifford Escobar CAOILE Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5

1. As @ocha- https://github.com/ocha- wrote in RHG mailing list in August, 2013http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rhg-discussion/2013-August.txt, Aoki-san, the author of RHG, indirectly gave him the following permission.

After I finished to translate all the remaining part of Chapter 1-19, I thought It's a good thing to post them to this project. But because it's been years since this translation project has started, just in case, I (indirectly) asked the author for the permission to upload the translation when I went to Asakusa.rb.

What I know is, it is allowed unless it is intended to sell. Thus the creative commons license is important.

So, as long as distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.5http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/, I think it doesn't matter. But I'm not sure if it can be changed into Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ruby-hacking-guide/ruby-hacking-guide.github.com/issues/14#issuecomment-22547264 .

[whitequark]

@markburns Ack.

[markburns]

@whitequark thanks - closing