Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
https://github.com/chivalry/meta-python/blob/master/LICENSE.md Thanks, Chuck > On Aug 9, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Charles Ross <chiva...@mac.com> wrote: > >> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech) content. Is that >> what you want? > > I really appreciate all the conversation about the license. Perhaps I made a > mistake with requiring noncommercial in the license, I don’t know, but I’ll > look at the links provided about free documentation and free software and see > if I can understand the issues more and perhaps make a better decision. > > Honestly, I have no expectation that this book will ever be anything more > than a (hopefully) useful resource for others like myself, as described in > the current introduction. I might have a remote hope that it would be > something that would receive attention from a traditional publisher, but that > remote hope is in the same category as a remote hope that a distant rich > uncle will someday name me in his well. So, given the minuscule odds of that > happening, I’ll probably remove the NC portion. I’ll just do a bit of > research first with those links. > > Thanks, > Chuck > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
