On 19/06/2011 1:24 PM, Hamish wrote:
* I think that the OSGeo-Live project should mandate that
Project Overviews should be available to be used under a
CC-BY (without the viral "Share Alike").
please don't conflate my gift to humanity with a computer virus,
or some autoimmune disease which parasites on the rest, often
destroying the host; thanks.
it's a nasty turn of phrase which was quite deliberately
invented to skew an otherwise meaningful discussion.
Copyleft does not infect you; you consciously decide to buy it,
or not.
</pet peve>
also while in the sensitive words dept., you do not "mandate"
a team of volunteers if you hope for them to stick around for any
period of time.
Hamish, I apologise for my poor choice of words.
Let me rephrase as:
In order for us to ensure that OSGeo-Live documentation can be
collectively incorporated into downstream documents, I suggest that we
set a minimum level of openness for the documents.
This may be "CC-BY" - where downstream documents need to attribute the
OSGeo-Live source documents, or "CC-BY-SA" where downstream documents
will be required to also be shared under the same CC license.
I invite you to have a look at some of the existing commercial/
consulting firm's training material, who were happy to give back.
The key I think is getting a reputation as the go-to company for
training on some particular area, not just being in sole control
of some quickly outdated PDF.
http://www.gdf-hannover.de/media.php?lg=en
http://www.gdf-hannover.de/leistungen.php?id=3&lg=en
I'm aware that some osgeo businesses release their documentation, and
some don't. Now is the time to speak up if you have ideas on how
OSGeo-Live documentation could be used, and as such which license we
should select.
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