Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > When I orignally wrote the document which would become the LedgerSMB > manual, I licensed it under the GNU Free Documentation License. Since > then I have received a number of complaints regarding the licensing > terms of the manual. In general there seem to be a number of concerns > that it might not be the right license for our technical document. > > I am therefore proposing that we change the license to a slightly > modified version of the Free BSD License. If there is a general > concensus that this should go forward, then I will begin auditing > contributions and contacting contributors to see if we can get the > license terms for contributions relaxed.
I actually think I would prefer the Open Publication License: http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/ Or perhaps the Creative Commons? Joshua D. Drake > > While this may have one (possibly minor) drawback in that the > documentation would be released under a more permissive license than > it is currently, and so may be an issue for some people on various > grounds, I believe that this would actually be a good thing for the > following reasons: > > 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). > > 2) Relaxing the documentation license terms would allow other > publishers to include excerpts from our documentation with the only > requirement being that they must preserve attribution. If this > happens, it will only advertise our software. > > 3) The license will be shorter, and easier to understand for everyone. > > My proposed license text is: > Copyright 2005-2007 The LedgerSMB Project. All rights reserved. > [Maintainer may list additional copyright separately] > > Redistribution and use in source (the preferred form for editing, for > example SGML DocBook) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, HTML, PDF, > PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, are > permitted provided that the following conditions are met: > > 1. Redistributions of source code (for example, SGML DocBook) > must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and > the following disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. > 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs > or formats) must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of > conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or > other materials provided with the distribution. > > THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE LEDGERSMB DOCUMENTATION PROJECT > "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT > LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR > A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FREEBSD > DOCUMENTATION PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, > SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT > LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, > DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY > THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT > (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE > OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH > DAMAGE. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-users
