[FM Discuss] back from wikimania

[Julian Oliver]

..on or around Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:57:09PM +0200, adam hyde said:
> 
> > i guess i'm not clear on the scope of what you mean by 'franchise'.
> > 
> > is this another way of saying a language fork? would they then also be 
> > able to sell on the printed material and give the project a different name?
> > 
> 
> anyone can sell on the printed material, its all gpl so they can so as
> they like. so the issue is really not about the content as such but
> about spreading the fm meme (the higher the recognition of the logo etc
> the more people that will access the manuals, consequently the more
> people that can then use free software). 
> 
> what i am suggesting is that languages are managed like a franchise. we
> enter in an agreement with whoever wants to drive a lang site. then they
> can use the logo, we help them set up a site based on the current fm
> site (we would have to get a  nice way to make the interface translation
> a bit smoother) etc, but they have to cover their own costs (server
> hosting etc) and if they get off track we can pull the use of the
> logo...i posted a longer version in an earlier email but thas the gist
> of it
> 
> it means we can keep an eye on the idealogy and quality but allow a
> language to pretty much go in their own direction - make manual
> appropriate to their language etc...if they stray from our agreement by
> compromising the quality - eg. they really make useless manuals - or the
> idealogy - eg. they reliencse material with a standard copyright 'all
> rights reserved' - then we kill their franchise which really means they
> can no longer use the logo 

well that all sounds fine to me. this would mean of course franchising 
couldn't support manuals released on FM under a CC-non-commerical or similarly 
restrictive license.

chars,

julian

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