On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Maor Meir wrote:

> Can anyone give here or point me to a short review of
> free licenses when talking about lecture slides on such like.
>
> I am fammilier with what it means to GPL/LGPL/ public domain license
> software, I am uncertain of how these licenses apply to anything other
> than software.
>
> there is also a GNU documentation licence? what are it's
> benefits/downsides?
>
> an ideal license as far as I am concerned would allow others to use
> my work convinient while making sure I get appropreate credit for
> my work but not allow anyone to attach my name to any junk some how
> related to something I wrote.
>
> Does such a magical license exist? what comes close?
>
>   Meir
>
>

Thanks to Alon altman, I went to http://creativecommons.org/license/ and
created licenses according to people's requests. The lectures by the
people who already replied carry links to the appropriate licenses. As you
can see there, they give the following options:

by: Require attribution?
Yes
No

Allow commercial uses of your work?
Yes
No

Allow modifications of your work?
Yes
Yes, as long as others share alike
No

What this form lacks is the granolarity you request (i.e. - if someone
changes it alot).

I can suggest that unless you find a license that says that, we build for
you the "require attribution+do not allow modification", and add that if
somebody modified it alot, they need not attribute it to you.

I doubt that there will be any license saying that only if their work is
good (to your taste), they should attribute it :)

Orna.

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