[FM Discuss] back from wikimania

[adam hyde]

>  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.

I'm not sure if I understand your point about the license with regard to
a franchise, do you mean franchises are defacto commercial and a
non-commercial license would not be able to work because of this?

a franchise is not necessarily commercial. FM is actually a foundation
with a not-for-profit status. so it would be very possible to set up a
franchise with another not-for-profit org. So I am not sure it matters
licenses come into it, we need to decide on that strategy seperately
(eg. what we are happy with for FM now, and then that will become part
of the franchise agreement)

adam

> 
> chars,
> 
> julian
> 
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