On 16 December 2015 at 05:15, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
>>
>> Should the book be updated with latest version of CC license?
>> It's currently at:
>>
>> Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
>>
>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.txt
>>
>> I realize that this is probably near the very bottom of the todo list, if
>> even present, but I'll be happy to wrap in our tags if needed. Just
>> another thing I ran across while going through the book. I was looking for
>> a plain text version of the license to include in PKGBUILD files. Sorry,
>> no plain text version of 2.0 on the site.
>
>
> Well we include the full text of the license in the book.  It would be
> interesting to see what the differences are.
>
> Really the only issue is to prevent someone from trying to prevent someone
> from using it (selling it) commercially.  That was done once before the
> license was put in the book.  I think it was something like LFS 3.0 or
> earlier around the year 2001.  That book is not around any more.
>
> Geez.  I just went to Amazon and they are offering 7.1 (2012) for $28. The
> last authorized version I knew about was version 6.0.  It looks like they
> just printed the pdf.
>
> In any case I think Gerard needs to make any decision about the copyright.

Has the GFDL ever been considered?

Richard
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