[FM Discuss] License of draft manuals?

[adam]

all GPL unless explicitly otherwise stated

adam

On Thu 02 May 2013 12:47:42 AM NZST, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Tomi,
>> What is the license of draft manuals? We usually stick a license into a
>> manual when it is published?
>
> In Booktype 1.6.0 you can set or change the license at any time, in the
> Settings tab of the editor.
>
> At Sourcefabric we made the decision to license our books GPLv3 to be
> compatible with the software licenses, so that source code could be
> pasted into the manuals without causing license complications.
>
>> Which means that draft manuals have an
>> unknown license?
>
> If you have not declared an explicit license then the book is 'all
> rights reserved' by default. Under the Berne Convention an author does
> not have to register copyright in order to have copyright:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
>
> So if you want a book to be unambiguously free-licensed you should
> declare this from the start, and ideally get contributors to acknowledge
> in writing that their work will be free-licensed.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel
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