[FM Discuss] can anyone explain this to me...

[adam hyde]

thanks...but they seem unclear about licensing...there is all this 'free
docs are cool' blah blah on the site but i cant see any books that look
freely licensed...at least even the epubs you have to pay $30 for or
so...am i right on this or do I get it wrong?


adam


On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 14:48 +0100, David Kuehling wrote:
> >>>>> "adam" == adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> writes:
> 
> > anyone in germany able to look at these sites : http://www.fosdoc.de
> > https://www.opensourcepress.de
> 
> > and tell em how the two projects relate? i cant quite make out what
> > the apparent relationship between the two are
> 
> Looks like they are one and the same :)
> 
> Well, more accurately, opensourcepress is a publishing company.  And
> fossdoc is a label they use, under which they try to offer publishing
> support and services for companies producing exclusively FOSS-licensed
> documentation.
> 
> The opensourcepress site states that they feel committed and want to
> contribute to the open source community, albeit not being a non-profit
> organization.  They even specfically explain in their FAQ that being a
> non-profit organization would have interfered with certain publishing
> business related activities, so to organize as a for-profit organization
> seemed the logical choice.
> 
> The FAQ also explains the ways in which they plan to contribute to the
> community, "paying back" the support they get from the community, such
> as: giving parts of their profits to open source projects, supplying
> free documentation and organizing workshops.
> 
> That's about the essence of what I gleaned from the two links you
> provided.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> David
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