[FM Discuss] "CC" license without "By" -- similar to public domain but has restriction.

narendra sisodiya narendra.sisodiya at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 13:13:49 PDT 2009


Dear all,
     I am silent reader of this mailing list. I just want to ask , It
is possible to have CC-SA licensing for books.
Actually, I am trying to generate community created text books via
Wiki interface. more or less similar to wikibooks.
But I want a simpler way to redistribution. when I copy some CC-BY-SA
license material from some wiki site, It create problems because I
have to look the names of author from history page. Also I need to put
a back link to the original article.
     Imagine a situation where I went to wikibooks and then I liked
one article. I took the printout of the article and give it to my
friend with $1. is it legal to do so ? I think I am violating the
license because I am not putting CC-By-SA license and back link to
wiki article. I just want to have some fast process when taking a
printout and selling won't be illegal.
     Imagine a situation when I am remixing some articles from
different sites and making a new book OR imagine a situation where
some publisher want to print my books with/without modification to the
text. I want a easy method to do so.
    CC-SA license look better to me as It remove hurdle of
attribution. but does it a valid license ?

Let me define my requirement.
       I am setting a wiki website where anyone can contribute. The
purpose to that wiki site is to create a public domain knowledge
repository. I want that anybody can take printout of whole or part of
book and sell them for any purpose (without a need to edit and write
attribution). I want that any publisher can download the booklet/books
and print as it ease. When they print my material, all they need to
give a url OR retain the paragraph about book repos and its url.
      If they make any modification then they must release new book in
such a way that the changes can be reflected (copied) to main books
repo.
      I am looking for simple license strategy where any publisher can
download and print my books and sell them.
      How can I do that.

May be I am not clear my my requirement but I want a simple mechanism
of public domain books.
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