Documentation license

[spqr2]

The documentation on http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/documentation.html has a noncommercial clause (by way of the CC-BY-NC-SA license). This prevents Linux distributions from easily including the document as they generally require something that is OSI-compliant (such as CC-BY-SA).

[FiloSottile]

Pinging @rg3 as he is the only one who can relicense (if he can).

Anyway I'm sure the generated man page (what one would expect a distribution to package) falls under the public domain declaration. Where would this documentation be used?

[rg3]

If none of the people who modified the pages claims copyright over them (I don't know if not adding themselves to the copyright notification qualifies), I'm willing to relicense.

[rg3]

BTW, the gh-pages branch has these authors apart from myself:

• Filippo Valsorda
• Jaime Marquínez Ferrándiz
• Philipp Hagemeister

[phihag]

Sure, I'm fine with relicensing the documentation. @rg3, you originally wanted to make sure nobody copies the whole homepage, so I suppose this only applies to documentation.html?

[rg3]

I think @spqr2 is specifically interested in documentation.html, but the license appears in several HTML files.

As I mentioned sometimes, the license is there because I really can't stand those sites that borrow your webpage text and attempt to use SEO so people land in their site, see the ads and finally click through to the real project site. They do a disservice. But if the result is an inconvenience for project packagers or distributors, I'm happy to change it. Whatever's more practical.

[FiloSottile]

I hereby give complete rights to Ricardo Garcia to relicensce any work of
mine committed to this project repository to any branch, in any way, at any
time, at his will. This will hold true also for any future work until new
different statement by me. -- Filippo Valsorda

Filippo Valsorda

[rg3]

Pinging @jaimeMF even if he only has one commit...

[jaimeMF]

I hadn't answered because I only have one commit, but I have no problem on relicensing.

[rg3]

Done. :)