[FM Discuss] Licensing - GPL II vs. Creative Commons

[John Curwood]

Hi Lachlan,

This is a list of the currently available licenses in booki when
publishing a book.

    >         GPL
        >         GPLv2+
        >         LGPL
        >         LGPLv2.1
        >         GPLv3+
        >         GPLv2
        >         GPLv3
        >         CC-BY
        >         CC-BY-SA
        >         Artistic
        >         BSD
        >         Public Domain
        >         LGPLv3
        >         MIT
        
If you look at the following link on the Gnu website
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOtherThanSoftware) they
state that you can use the GPL for any kind of work as long as you make
it very clear what your "source code" is for the work.
        
Cheers,

John

        
        On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 13:23 +1000, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:46, John Curwood
> <marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:
>         Hi Rebecca,
>         
>         When publishing a book, you once again make a license choice,
>         this time
>         there are a lot to choose from including "all" the different
>         flavours of
>         the GPL.
> 
> 
> Can I get clarification on this?
> 
> 
> I would think that the booki _code_ would be GPL, but I'm not sure
> that the GPL is appropriate for documents - either the Gnu Free
> Document License (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) or the CC
> licences are more appropriate, aren't they?
> 
> 
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