Re: html5doctor.com Reset Stylesheet license

Hi Geoffrey,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I've updated the post (along a similar lines to your suggestion) and
changes the settings in Google Code to an MIT Licence.

Best,
Richard

On 13 July 2015 at 13:21, Richard Clark <hello@richclarkdesign.com> wrote:

> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
>
> I've updated the post (along a similar lines to your suggestion) and
> changes the settings in Google Code to an MIT Licence.
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>
>
> On 30 June 2015 at 02:04, Geoffrey Sneddon <geoffers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Rich,
>>
>> Can you please clarify the license you intend to provide the
>> html5doctor.com Reset Stylesheet under, especially later revisions to
>> what appears in the original blog post[1], namely those on the Google
>> Code project[2]? In the blog post you state, "The stylesheet is
>> released in the public domain”, but the Google Code project states the
>> code is under the GNU GPL v2 — a very different status! Downloading
>> the stylesheet itself (v1.6.1 from 2010), it makes no mention of its
>> licensing status.
>>
>> Furthermore, as far as I’m aware, under UK copyright law, it is
>> impossible to grant a work into the public domain — the only way for
>> something to enter into the public domain is by the copyright term
>> elapsing, and I hope progress on the web platform has gone far enough
>> as to make the stylesheet obsolete by seventy years after your death!
>>
>> I’d suggest licensing it under the CC0 license, which attempts to
>> emulate the intent of a public domain grant[3]. Their FAQ has a
>> suggestion as to how to apply it to computer software[4]. You may also
>> want to consider simultaneously offering it under the MIT license[5],
>> which is the closest open-source initiative approved license to a
>> public domain grant. To achieve this, I’d suggest wording a grant
>> along the lines of the opening of the MIT license, preferably listing
>> the files from the download page (ideally all of them!), and stating
>> they may use the software under the terms of the CC0 license or the
>> MIT license, though as a disclaimer I am not a lawyer and should you
>> have any questions you’re better off speaking to a lawyer than me.
>> i.e., "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>> obtaining a copy of html5-reset.css, html5-reset-1.2.css,
>> html5-reset-1.3.css, html5-reset-1.4.css, html5-reset-1.4.1.css,
>> html5-reset-1.5.css, html5-reset-1.5.1.css, html5-reset-1.6.css, or
>> html5-reset-1.6.1.css, as originally published at
>> <https://code.google.com/p/html5resetcss/downloads/list> (the
>> "Software”), to deal in the Software under the terms of the CC0 Public
>> Domain Dedication, see
>> <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>, or,
>> alternatively, to deal in the Software under the terms of the MIT
>> License, see <http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>.” (You should
>> probably preface this with some statement about you being the author
>> and copyright holder of the works.)
>>
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>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Geoffrey Sneddon.
>>
>> [1]: http://html5doctor.com/html-5-reset-stylesheet/
>> [2]; https://code.google.com/p/html5resetcss/
>> [3]: https://creativecommons.org/about/cc0
>> [4]:
>> https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0_FAQ#May_I_apply_CC0_to_computer_software.3F_If_so.2C_is_there_a_recommended_implementation.3F
>> [5]: http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
>>
>
>
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