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Introduction to Python (2014)
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Change license to one that encourages remixing #5

Closed audreyfeldroy closed 10 years ago

audreyfeldroy commented 10 years ago

Possibly public domain or other Creative Commons license. Actually, when I use Creative Commons licensed materials, I enjoy the attribution part because it encourages friendly sharing and crediting between projects, and also it makes it easy to track down original sources.

For example, I attributed our Part 0 section here to DjangoGirls Tutorial: Python Installation, who attributed it in turn to Geek Girls Carrots. It's really cool to trace back and discover that our setup instructions were originally written in Polish for women programmers in Warsaw! Attribution history can be fun to read.

willingc commented 10 years ago

@audreyr - @treyhunner and I discussed this earlier. +1 on a more permissive license. I agree on the CC with attribution. Good for building community :)

treyhunner commented 10 years ago

:+1: I tend to prefer CC0 (public domain), but I'm happy with a permissive traditional CC license.

If traditional CC, my vote is for CC BY (commercial use permitted, derivatives permitted, ShareAlike not required). I'd be fine with ShareAlike and NonCommercial, but I definitely don't want a NoDerivs (I'd like to see our work remixed).

Preferences?

audreyfeldroy commented 10 years ago

I vote for CC BY