I have decided to reply to this in more detail, On 10/20/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Travers writes: > > 1) It would avoid the temptation to use invariant sections as personal > > soap-boxes (the great example of this is the forced inclusion of the GNU > > Manifesto in the EMACS manual). > > Not that I have any objection to the change, but note that your proposed > license would not prevent the addition of invariant sections (or changes > and additions under pretty much any terms the author of the changes wants > to use).
I guess I should say more specifically what I am trying to prevent. The GFDL allows for invariant sections without changing the license as a document as a whole. This allows the illusion of free documentation. By going with a more permissive license, nothng prevents authors from adding invariant sections, but they cannot apply the license we as a project have chosen to them. In essence invariant sections become less usable for the projec but no less usable for people who, say, publish printed documentation. In short this license provides greater incentive for us to keep the documentation unambiguously Free and Open (all sections) and provides greater reusability elsehwere with credit being granted to our project. I know some producers of other documentation for the project who would rather not use the GFDL. THere is one issue though that might limit our ability to do this for *all* project documentation. Our developer documentation and man pages are likely to be derived from POD which is inline in the code. This makes our developer doucmentation a derivative work of the actual source code files themselves. If current contributors does not want to relicense the POD to us under the appropriate license, we could be forced to use the GPL for the developer documentation. > > > My proposed license text is: Copyright 2005-2007 The LedgerSMB Project. > > Is The LedgerSMB Project a corporation? If not I don't believe that it can > own a copyright. I actually think that the core team should register the copyrights to the software and documentation. It is not expensive, and would provide us with a fair bit or protection down the road. So something like: Copyright 2005-2007 Chris Tavers, Seneca Cunningham, Jason Rodrigues, Joshua Drake, Joshua Berkus, Christopher Murtagh and others. Does this help? Best Wishes, Chris Travers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
