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

[adam hyde]

you should wait for the release of the new platform that FLOSS Manuals
is developing. It is for exactly the kind of project you are trying to
do, ie. a "simple mechanism of public domain books."

the platform is called 'booki', and will be out sometime next year

adam




On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 01:43 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote:
> 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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