Symphony Community Licence

[nilshoerrmann]

We need proper licensing term for Factory: it shall be free for all network sites (MIT style) but should not be used outside the Symphony context. This is what we have as dummy text in our working copy:

Symphony Community Licence

Copyright 2012 Symphony Community

Symphony Factory is free to use, free of charge for all Symphony Network sites (MIT style). It may not be used in contexts other than the Symphony Network.

Symphony Factory was created by Johanna and Nils Hörrmann and kindly funded by the Symphony Community.

Maybe this is something for @allen to jump in: how should the licence be worded?

[allen]

I have a larger question surrounding this. Should the Symphony committee approve Symphony network sites or will this be a free-for-all thing?

If the license is granted by consent, then it can be written with the notion of "free but rights reserved."

Alternatively, we'll look at borrowing from GPL where, "permission to use only if used for Symphony related websites."

[nilshoerrmann]

I have a larger question surrounding this. Should the Symphony committee approve Symphony network sites or will this be a free-for-all thing?

Good question: I'd say – as Factory is available on Github – this should be a "free-for-all thing", as you said. Otherwise we'd have to hide the framework from the public and only make it accessible to selected people/groups. There is one restriction, I'd say it should only be free for all Symphony related activities.

There is one thing that should be committee approved and that are the links included in the network toolbar and drawer. Not sure where this content should be discussed (forum, mails) and with whom (working groups, current network site makers)?

[allen]

Re: free-for-all but only for Symphony related activities. Agreed.

Re: approved sites on the network toolbar. This would be approved by the working group. The new WG will be formalised once the new Symphony website along with the new member subsite is launched.