Licensing of the User Guide etc

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Hello there!

Currently, the pages of the Haiku User Guide, Quick Tour etc. all show the same copyright header as all the Haiku code:

 * Copyright 2010-2023, Haiku. All rights reserved.
 * Distributed under the terms of the MIT License.

Is the MIT license approriate here or is something like CreativeCommons a better fit?
Maybe Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International.
Or is MIT OK, I have no idea.

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Edit

The MIT license specifically mentions “the associated documentation” in the license.

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The MIT license Haiku uses, and is also used when packaging the User Guide etc. is identical to the one linked above, except the addition:

…, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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I edited my post. That was the MIT-0 license I posted a link to by mistake.

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It’s simpler to keep everything under the same license (code, documentation and other resources). Why would MIT be a problem?

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MIT is perfectly fine for this case.

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As I said, I don’t know much about licensing. That’s why I asked.
@nephele, thanks for the straight answer.