Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
Because OSG is being developed and the book authoring is difficult, the OSG book should come with Creative Commons or GNU document license. That way we would have a base book which any of us could extend later. For such successful book project, the Csound manual goes as a good example. No single person need to maintain the Csound manual because each section is written as an XML file and kept in CVS. If the book is not freely available, there will no be massive increase in volunteers. And current volunteers may feel disappointed that the only documentation is available only for $$. Soon somebody would realize that there is a need for a freely available OSG book. :-(
I think really, the issue of the license for the book content should be up to the contributors. Remember, there has hitherto, been no great outpouring of volunteers to write this book, Creative Commons or not. That's why we're trying to find a viable for-profit model to write it under. If you eliminate all possibility of paying someone for their time to write this, I predict it will not get written.
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