On 10/22/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Travers wrote:
Before I begin, if everyone really wants to go with either of these licenses, I dont consider any of my objections to be blocking. But at the same time, I should flag concerns that I see and why I don't use either of these licenses for my works. > > I actually think I would prefer the Open Publication License: > > http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ Hmm.... Suppose we standardize on the OPL with neither option. It seems that the OPL might cause some issues if a large anthology of smaller works were to be created (especially as we add tutorials, etc): "Any publication in standard (paper) book form shall require the citation of the original publisher and author. The publisher and author's names shall appear on all outer surfaces of the book. On all outer surfaces of the book the original publisher's name shall be as large as the title of the work and cited as possessive with respect to the title." While I agree that copyright holders should be listed and cited, this looks fairly obnoxious and in a large anthology with many different authors could become prohibitive. Standard practice in an anthology does not necessarily include listing every author of every section on the outer covers (it is sufficient to list them along with the work title). In short, the OPL looks like it may be geared areally at large works (books) and not at smaller works like how-to essays. Secondly, at that point, I am not sure what we gain by moving from the (potentially unFree if optional clauses are used) GNU "Free" Documentation License to the (potentially unFree if optional clauses are used) Open Publication Liense. > > Or perhaps the Creative Commons? Which Creative Commons license were you thinking? 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
