Hi Adam, hi everyone!<br>first,, my new year greetings to all of you,,<br>then,, <br><br>As i had previously written to Adam, on January 22nd we are starting in Lima, Perú a booksprint on "collaboration experiences in Perú". <br>
<br>The sprint is inspired by a peculiar statistic from 2008, saying that "peru has the highest entrepreneurship rate in the world". The sad truth behind that statistic is that peruvians are not oriented to entrepreneurship because of beeing able to devise any special opportunity, but rather that people <u>need</u> to choose working "on their own" because of unconfidence, built up over a long history of corruptancy, violence and diffuse sense of identity. <br>
<br>So, the aim of the booksprint is to collect experiences of success and difficulties for collaboration among individuals, companies and government.<br><br>But one "problem" has appeared as we started looking for funding. A private university shows to be very interested in funding our publication, but theyīre asking for exclusive rights over the content... At that point i suppose this first booksprint we are organizing couldnīt be "powered by" or "hosted" on the flossmanuals platform, or am i wrong? As i read the FM FAQ, it says that the content should be published under GPL... But sadly the lawyers working for the university in discussion here still havenīt ever needed to understand what "GPL" means (and that could take months!). We tried to explain to them what the spirit of the sprint was,, that the content should be available to everyone, (since itīs about usefull collective learnings on collaboration). But they wonīt fund the writing if the content is not licensed to them.. thats the way they fund research pubications....<br>
<br>Of course we are deeply interested in the FLOSS ideals, expanded to other subjects different from software, and we do our best to find sponsors understanding and supporting expansion of FLOSS concepts... But it seems in the third world itīs still hard to make people/organizations change their minds.... Iīm sure we will be able at some point to find more suitable funding for "free" production. But sadly not at this time.<br>
<br>So the question i open here is if it is possible to use the FLOSS manuals tools for editing a book that wonīt be GPL ... please donīt take me bad,, iīm just asking and sharing our problem here,, it would be very usefull for us as <u>for learning to know the platform</u>... I guess it could still be possible to include in the writing "inspired by FLOSS manuals",, but if itīs not possible this time, i guess we can wait for the propper moment... <br>
<br>thanks,<br>Kiko <br><br><br>pd: As i think on GPL or CC, i wonder if itīs possible to include "the figure of the sponsor" as part of the license, something like CC-made-possible-by "xxx",, i donīt know much on licensing so iīd really appreciate if someone can direct me to some info / example on that... : )<br>
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