[FM Discuss] Licensing Chapter for Booki Manual

[Chepi Gimenez]

Hi John,

What's the timeframe for this? I'll be happy to help over the weekend, if
that's useful. I'm the CC project leader in my country, so I think I might
be able to help.

Lemme know.


chepi

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 6:48 AM, John Curwood <
marketing at lovinglearning.co.nz> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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