On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> At 01:28 10-09-01, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> >
> > > At 00:27 10-09-01, Sterling Hughes wrote:
> > > > Oh yeah, not to mention the license is pretty bad :) I give up all
> > > > rights
> > > > to the material that I write (more so than an assignment of rights,
> > > > which is standard for contributors to commercial texts), and you
> > > > don't even get payed for it...
> > >
> > > Kinda like the FSF assignment. This is so that we can publish these docs
> > > in books free of charge, without having to run after everybody who
> > > contributed. Don't worry, we don't get a nickel out of it.
> > >
> >
> > (taken offlist, although your certainly free to bring it back on
> > list)
> >
> > I know, more what I have a problem is that you take away the right
> > for the docs to be freely published in a commercial context, I wouldn't
> > mind losing rights to the work, as long as the other end of the
> > spectrum allowed for completely unrestricted redistribution.
>
> Hmm, and doesn't the open documentation license or whatever its called
> allows that??
>
"Commercial distribution of the work or derivative of the work in any
standard (paper) book form is prohibited unless prior permission is
obtained from the copyright holder."
> Note, we didn't choose the license for the docs. Tobias and Till
> did. Frankly, it surprises me that here, too, there are problems, but I
> guess it was to be expected statistically :)
>
;) -- I know they chose the license (you forget, I used to work
for one of them, and I'm still friends with the other :) The
license makes sense from the Book's point of view, but as an Open
Source License it doesn't make sense (especially because the chapter
is sorely lacking, not just out of date).
-Sterling
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