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[jira] [Created] (LEGAL-95) Should our web sites have an explicit
"Terms of Use"?
Should our web sites have an explicit "Terms of Use"?
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Key: LEGAL-95
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-95
Project: Legal Discuss
Issue Type: Question
Reporter: Kevan Miller
I was recently asked about the terms of use/license of an ASF project's web site. I responded that the content was AL v2, but then spent a few seconds trying to provide proof of that statement. I wasn't successful... The content was copyright Apache Software Foundation, but there was no indication of the license for the content. I sampled a few projects and found varying results:
Some sites were copyright the ASF and licensed under AL v2 (including www.apache.org). Other sites were simply copyright the ASF. Other sites had no copyright or license statement at all.
Do we have guidelines describing what's expected/required of our projects? Should we set some guidelines?
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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-95) Should our web sites have an explicit
"Terms of Use"?
Posted by "Shane Curcuru (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Shane Curcuru commented on LEGAL-95:
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Yes, we should define and clearly publish a license and any basic terms of use on our main apache.org website. We should also document our expectations of projects in this regard.
I think requiring AL for project websites is appropriate. It would be great if we had a Maven and Forrest volunteer to document how to apply this to generated sites using those tools.
Note that a number of projects do/have had terms of use statements, IIRC. There's been discussion about terms of use when project websites use Google tracking IDs.
> Should our web sites have an explicit "Terms of Use"?
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>
> Key: LEGAL-95
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-95
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Kevan Miller
>
> I was recently asked about the terms of use/license of an ASF project's web site. I responded that the content was AL v2, but then spent a few seconds trying to provide proof of that statement. I wasn't successful... The content was copyright Apache Software Foundation, but there was no indication of the license for the content. I sampled a few projects and found varying results:
> Some sites were copyright the ASF and licensed under AL v2 (including www.apache.org). Other sites were simply copyright the ASF. Other sites had no copyright or license statement at all.
> Do we have guidelines describing what's expected/required of our projects? Should we set some guidelines?
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[jira] [Commented] (LEGAL-95) Should our web sites have an explicit
"Terms of Use"?
Posted by "Sam Ruby (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>.
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Sam Ruby commented on LEGAL-95:
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> I think requiring AL for project websites is appropriate.
I doubt that will be controversial. :-)
> It would be great if we had a Maven and Forrest volunteer to document how to apply this to generated sites using those tools.
Not just for Maven and Forrest, but also for all changes to the entire website, and for our expectations of projects.
> Should our web sites have an explicit "Terms of Use"?
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>
> Key: LEGAL-95
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-95
> Project: Legal Discuss
> Issue Type: Question
> Reporter: Kevan Miller
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> I was recently asked about the terms of use/license of an ASF project's web site. I responded that the content was AL v2, but then spent a few seconds trying to provide proof of that statement. I wasn't successful... The content was copyright Apache Software Foundation, but there was no indication of the license for the content. I sampled a few projects and found varying results:
> Some sites were copyright the ASF and licensed under AL v2 (including www.apache.org). Other sites were simply copyright the ASF. Other sites had no copyright or license statement at all.
> Do we have guidelines describing what's expected/required of our projects? Should we set some guidelines?
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