Task Based Development page at mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/tasks/

[Adrian Buehlmann]

On 2011-01-24 12:15, Martin Geisler wrote:
> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2011-01-24 09:44, Martin Geisler wrote:
>>> Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> (Thanks for publishing that page, BTW)
>>>
>>> No problem, I'm glad people find it useful. We would be happy to
>>> expand it further with more topics and to get "guest writers". If you
>>> want to play with it, then clone
>>>
>>>   https://bitbucket.org/mg/kick-start
>>>
>>
>> Oh. Hmm. Under what license do you publish that work? (Text and self
>> made images).
> 
> Well, I guess we would not want people to re-publish the text without
> asking us first. If parts of it makes sense on Mercurial's own pages,
> then I'll be happy to contribute it back. I would also be happy to open
> source the (small) back-end code that generates the screen shots if
> anybody wants to reuse it.
> 
> So you should contribute to the guide because you find it useful to have
> a larger body of documentation in this step-by-step format and
> understand that we (aragost) will publish it on our website.
> 
> I guess I could find a CC-style license for it if you like?

Near as I can tell, there is no variant of the CC licenses that would
allow you to require that people have to ask for permission to republish
a copyrighted work. So CC licenses are not compatible with what you have
stated above ("we would not want people to re-publish the text without
asking us first").

And the non-commercial CC licenses are IMHO detrimental for any project
which strives to foster a healthy ecosystem around it. So I would
definitely advise against using these.

(I know almost everyone -- including me -- hates license threads, but
not making errors here avoids potential future hassles.)