I'll have to think about that one. My Wine lectures already carry a license which is rather simplistic, but should answer whatever is needed. As for the security lectures - I'll have to look into those. If anyone needs to do anything specific with them, they are welcome to contact me.OK, let's realize one simple thing.
If someone wants to take something from these lectures, they will. If they want to give credits, they will. If they don't want to, they wont.
Licenses, especially when it comes to slides, are such nonsense. The Bulgarian case is a beautiful demonstration:
Here come a few guys from Bulgaria, who want to translate our slides. In a friendly (should I dare to use the word "free"?) world, we would simply say: "Of course, go ahead, we're glad we could help you", but instead we say something like "we're going to call our lawyer". The only reason we don't call him, is that we don't have one.
Eventually, they will accept our conditions, or they won't. If they accepted our conditions, it's most probably because they were OK with them in the first place. If they won't, we have saved our slides from the terribly faith of millions of Bulgarians being unaware that Eli Billauer wrote the lecture about IP maquerading.
And there is the third possibility: That they get sick and tired of licenses, and write it all by themselves. Which happens all too often.
Will they give us credits? Of course they will! It's for their own benefit to show what the original was, so people can correct their translation if it turns out to be wrong.
Unlike software, slides consist of little text, and a few figures, and neither have to be "tested". If I just want to make a lecture in the Estonian Linux Club, based upon Shahar's slides, and not waste too much time, I will simply use his slides, and hence the credits will be there. If I work for a corporate, I will rewrite the slides, possibly copying the figures with another graphics tools. Can you prove I copied from you after that? And as far as I know, it even copyrightly legal (which is not the point here anyhow).
I hate licenses, because they take a community that should deal with helping and sharing, and feeds it with loads of paranoia. We're protecting ourselves against an enemy that is either nonexistent, or strong enough to do whatever he wants.
Eli
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