Hi,
at the previous steering group
meeting I proposed an AsciiDoc
awesome list to provide a
community edited list of tools in
the AsciiDoc ecosystem - see https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
for examples.
As the AsciiDoc WG it allows us
to list and promote tools that
support AsciiDoc. These lists are
usually maintained on GitHub repos
in the README.
This post is about where to host
a Git repo for this, and which
license to choose.
While the AsciiDoc WG has a strong
interest in this, I propose to host
it not as an Eclipse project, but as
as a simple GitHub repo unter
https://github.com/asciidoc
Future versions of this list
might be rendered as nice HTML on
the asciidoc.org.
Please comment if you think this
is possible/advisable.
Something to be discussed in the
future: We (as the AsciiDoc WG)
might end up with a list of things
that have the name AsciiDoc in
their name, but not necessarily be
AsciiDoc TCK compliant (once there
is a language specification).
These lists have usually a very
liberal license. A quick survey
revealed mostly licenses like
"Creative Commons Zero v1.0
Universal" aka "CC0", others used
MIT License.
Some thoughts on this:
CC-licenses fit better here, as
this is about documentation. As
the AsciiDoc Lang documentation
will be licensed CC-BY-4.0, this
would also be an option. Following
it to the letter, it would require
everyone copying a link and
one-line-of-text from the
Awesomelist to add a link to the
AsciiDoc Awesome list. Using
CC-BY-4.0 is tempting to promote
the list, but probably not the
spirit of Awesome lists.
I therefore propose:
- to adopt a license of CC0
- no requirement of signing a
eclipse contributor's agreement
Again, please comment if you
think this is possible/advisable.
Best regards,
Alexander