Andre Schnabel wrote:
So .. speaking for the project (the project you are contributing to)
your documetation is not reusable.
Wouldn't it have been easier to say that at the beginning instead of
just repeating "it's not our preferred license"?
Please give me a few days to think about this then. When we chose the
license we were not thinking of borrowing existing documentation because
there wasn't much we could borrow anyways. We /were/ thinking about
other people reusing our work. And we picked a license that we felt
accomplished that. Please please please read the "authors-license.odt"
file so you can see our reasoning.
Daniel .. sorry for missunderstanding. It is not about *you* as a part
of the community. I know what you are doing for and within the community.
Thank you.
It's very simple: use PDL, so that content can be exchanged.
No, it's not that simple. The PDL prevets content from being reused in
the largest pools of existing content (GPL and Creative Commons) it
prevents distribution by Debian (the largest Linux distro), it requires
a lot of heavy work which made it hard for us to write and review
chapters at the speed we wanted (if each chapter gets reviewed 6 times
and we have 88 chapters so far, that's a lot of tracking to do) and we
were worried that we might not be using the license correctly (how
detailed should be tracking be?).
This doesn't mean I'm not open to suggestions. But it does mean that
it's not as simple as you're making it out to be. It took us more than a
month to decide on the current license and I can't just change that
overnight as if it was turning the light switch.a
I have read authors-license.odt and stille wonder why it was not the
main intention to comply with existing (and future) documents that are
developed at the OOo project.
Because there weren't many documents in that category, and there were
many documents in the others. Using the same thing other documents use
is a desirable goal, but not the only one. For example, if the choice of
license prevents redistribution by important channels and causes so much
extra work as to halt the project, those are important considerations
too. It's not an easy decision. As I said earlier, I'll consider what
you said and look for options. Please be a little patient.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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