Nicu Buculei wrote: > >You'll find that the PDL is a surprisingly restrictive and burdensome > >license. :-( > > a competing license is GNU/FDL, which in my understanding is considered > less free (for example is not considered Free by Debian)
Yeah, because of the "invariant section" part. It allows a doc to have effectively non-free parts (and that "part" could cover the entire doc). > >Another concern that I *just* realized: Strictly speaking, I'm not sure > >translations are allowed. Because if you translate, then it's no longer > >"a copy of ...". > > here we run in circles: translation is not allowed, but if is not > translated has no legal value in countries not using english as official > language (but the same is true for any other license, being it MS EULA, > GPL or CC) Actually, not for CC Attribution. The CC Attribution license does not require you to keep using that license. It only requires you to include proper attributions in the file. For example, an appendix with a list of contributors will do. Therefore, you could make a derivative and release it under a "Nicu's Attribution license" which happens to be in Romanian and looks very similar to the CC Attribution :-) And that's allowed as long as you keep the list of contributors. * * * * Warning, warning: I am not a lawyer * * * * * * * * Take what I say with a grain of salt * * * * > PDL wan not created by OOo? thei may not even know PDL exist. I've heard that, but I haven't confirmed it. > >Do you think we should start a discussion about the idea of changing > >licenses to the Creative Commons Attribution ? > > i don't have (yet) an opinion about changing licensed, i had only some > concerns raised by our translation and felt the right thing is to also > express them upstream Well, let me know if you want to start a discussion. I can offer a lot of pros and cons. But I don't want to just jump into a long thread you didn't indend for. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |
