[FM Discuss] License question

[adam]

there is a bigger question you are not considering, we remix a lot of 
content - use one chapter in another manual etc

when all licenses are unified (/inter-operable) this is easy. When they 
are not unified they are not usable in this manner.

by the way. i am totally bored by license talk :) please read through 
the innumerable boring discussions on the fm list about the same 
subject. i hope we dont ever have to regurgitate this dull debate again...


adam


On 04/17/2011 10:40 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
> On 17/04/11 21:11, Walter van Holst wrote:
>> On 4/17/11 10:07 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
>>> On 17/04/11 20:51, helen varley jamieson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> surely the fact that a variety of CC licence options exist is a good
>>>> enough reason to make them available?
>>>
>>> But most of them aren't free/open licences, so that's a good reason to
>>> not make them available.
>>
>> Only the ND and NC ones aren't,
>
> Yes, that's most of them. :-)
>
> Free: BY BY-SA
> NonFree: BY-NC BY-ND BY-NC-ND BY-NC-SA
>
>> I can see a reason for not making them
>> available. The normal BY and SA variants are free/open, so why not make
>> those available?
>
> FLOSS Manuals standardized on the GPL (except for Digital Foundations,
> which I must nag someone about again soon... ;-) )
>
> This used to be explained here:
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Blog/LicenseChange
>
> But that's now gone, and all the internet archive has is:
>
> http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20090130022402/http://en.flossmanuals.net/news
>
> "License Change
> FLOSS Manuals is changing the license of all material in the repository
> from the Free Documentation License to the GPL. Why? Well...the issue of
> licenses and documentation is a frustrating road to travel. There are
> many 'free licenses' in the world, but none of them work well as
> documentation licenses if you have the following prerequisites:
> compatability with the GPL ease of ..."
>
> - Rob.
>
>
>
>
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