How should this content be licensed?

[vermiculus]

@johannesbottcher noted on gitter:

Question to all: Should a template have a license, and if so, which? Should a template introduce itself as a template in a meta-comment? When does a template stops being a template and getting a personal document? google lists thousands of files stating: % This is a simple template for a LaTeX document using the "article" class. where the user simply did not remove that comment. I guess we all agree, that there aren't so many templates.

There are several things I can think to consider:

• Do users implicitly or explicitly agree to whatever license the repository uses (LPPL would be most appropriate), or does each contribution have its own license (a management/legal nightmare)?
• How are template authors given credit for their work?

[vermiculus]

I think there is room for a YAML, JSON, or XML document describing all the metadata for each file in a given directory so that the files themselves are kept clean. The only things that could stay in any given file, I suppose, are the contributor's name and any given contact information.

Though that in itself raises an interesting point – who to contact when things go wrong – which I'll defer to #3.