[FM Discuss] Licensing Chapter for Booki Manual

[John Curwood]

Hi,

I have been working on the Booki User Guide and have encountered several
areas where a user will need to select an appropriate licence for their
content (1- When creating a book, 2- When uploading images, 3- when
publishing a book).  As Booki is designed to be used by a wide audience
I think a chapter on licensing is necessary and not only should it
include a description of each licence but also give strengths and
weaknesses as well as describing situations in which you would use
certain licenses and why, enabling a user with no prior publishing
experience to choose the right licence for their work.  While I can add
brief descriptions of the licenses, I lack the experience to provide the
extra info that is required to help create a decision making framework
so I am asking for volunteers from the list to help add the licensing
chapter to the Booki User Guide.  To do this you will need to have an
account set up with Booki (www.booki.cc).  The list of available
licenses is given below, Creating a new book and uploading images have
the same options, while publishing has several extra licenses to choose
from making it very daunting for the un-initiated. :)

Licensing options for Creating a Book/Uploading Images:
        CC-0
        CC-BY
        CC-BY-SA
        General Public Licence
        MIT
        Public Domain

Licensing options when Publishing:
        GPL
        GPLv2+
        LGPL
        LGPLv2.1
        GPLv3+
        GPLv2
        GPLv3
        CC-BY
        CC-BY-SA
        Artistic
        BSD
        Public Domain
        LGPLv3
        MIT
        
Cheers,

John