[Puppet Users] Re: Copyright on published recipies

Ryan McBride
2008-07-01T05:02:43Z

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:33:58AM -0500, Evan Hisey
wrote:
> Fortunately this problem should not affect people attempting to _use_
> the recipes. Only those publishing complete manifests or large recipe
> groupings are affected.

While in practice there may be no consequences to downloading and using
copyrighted recipes without appropriate permission, such use is still
technical illegal according to copyright law in many jurisdictions.

Of course there is a great degree of grey area here; one could make
arguments about fair use / fair dealing (the details of which vary from
jurisdiction to jurisdiction and are quite subjective in all of them)
and one might also argue that trivial examples are effectively not
copyrightable (but such trivial examples are usually acompanied by very
copyrightable text).  Personally, I''d prefer to avoid that mess though.

I think it''s safest pick one license, and make sure EVERYTHING on the
wiki is released under it. Much less uncertainty that way.

-Ryan

--
Ryan T. McBride, CISSP - mcbride@countersiege.com
Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com
PGP key fingerprint = 5A63 31A0 B2E0 4A64 3D16  C474 99A7 BEFE F9BA A8E0