We decided to release all of the ISM-Community products under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.  Before, we had stated that we were using the FreeBSD Documentation License.  We changed licenses based on the following considerations:

• FreeBSD Documentation License and CC Attribution license are fairly comparable
• FreeBSD Documentation License is "owned" by the FreeBSD Project and would need to be "forked" to become an ISM-Community License
• While forking the FDL is fairly simple, ISM-Community is not that keen to take up license maintenance on top of all the other projects we have going
  
• Creative Commons has a plethora of materials describing your rights so we don't have to  =)
  

Where this matters to anybody who is involved is that when you submit anything to be an ISM-Community project, you're agreeing to license it under the CC Attribution V3.0 License.

This is my snippet of words for in-document usage, I'll upload a file with just this in a couple of jiffies:

Copyright and License

Copyright: The ISM Community – All Rights Reserved - 2007

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