Nicu Buculei wrote: > following this discussion i searched by additional info at OSI. it > appears PDL is not listed as OSI approved: > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/
But the PDL is not intended to be an open source license. It's meant to be an open documentation license (and sadly, there is no rigorous definition of what that is). Notice that the FDL and the CC licenses are not on that list either. > i don't want to start or participate in such long threads. > you may have noticed my participation in the project was considerably > reduced lately exactly as a result of those long disputes (and the > politics behind them) :-( I hope you don't think there's a lot of politics at OOoAuthors. The reasons I had in mind were not political. Not one. They were about practicality, and legal concerns. For example: Some pros for switching: * Because most people don't use PDL, our work is inside a "walled garden" and can't be embedded into other work. In contrast, the CC community is large and growing. * The PDL is inconvenient to use. We have the front matter at the top, we have to keep track of contributions, and we have to include the entire license inside the document. In contrast, the CC attribution license is really easy to use. Some cons: * The switch would require rewriting any chapter whose owner cannot be located. These are the things I'm thinking of. Practical issues, not politics. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |
