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A guideline document for Typst package and template development.
Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International
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Chose appropriate license #10

Closed tingerrr closed 3 months ago

tingerrr commented 3 months ago

A suggestion by @PgBiel was CC-BY 4.0.

SillyFreak commented 3 months ago

is there a specific reason for CC BY over CC BY-SA? At least superficially, it seems similar to MIT vs GPL (enforcing the same license on downstream adaptors). With documentation style content, the SA restriction seems fairly harmless compared to copyleft on code.

Basically: is allowing/preventing the guidelines being remixed into non-CC works a bug or a feature?

PgBiel commented 3 months ago

My suggestion (over Discord) was just what felt to be the most harmless option. I don't really mind going with either license.

tingerrr commented 3 months ago

Since this is not a package or library of any kind, I think it's fine to require derivatives of the work to be shared under the same terms. Ideally, if someone feels like forking and fixing all my typos, the community should benefit from the improved work.

That is, if I understood the SA clause correctly. The wording implies that derivatives must be shared, but I'm not sure if this implies must be shared with the public.

PgBiel commented 3 months ago

Sure

SillyFreak commented 3 months ago

Good for me too!