hi > On 04/10/2012 12:17 PM, JLuc wrote: > > Le 10/04/2012 14:55, Gregory Pittman a ?crit : > >> On 04/10/2012 08:26 AM, a.l.e wrote: > >>> > >>> so, the problem is not that one has to contribute back to scribus > >>> (which could be done with a standard OPL license... > >> > >> http://opencontent.org/openpub/ > > > > That page is outdated : > > links and emails in the appendix are dead. > > I didnt try the mailing list yet. > > > Nonetheless, I can't find any other mention of the OPL that > substantially deviates from this. O'Reilly has a number of references > to it that are substantially no different. > > One of the characteristics of documentation is similar to other kinds > of nonfiction and fiction writing. I can freely rewrite the content > of almost anything, it just requires that I rewrite the material, not > simply copy it. Software is quite different, you can't paraphrase a > program and expect it to work. Therefore, I don't think that the two > are really comparable. > > Paraphrasing, while simple, isn't so easy. The small number of > comprehensive documentation efforts in regard to Scribus is testimony > to the difficulty of actually sitting down and getting the job done. > I'm more than happy to contribute documentation to the Scribus > project and get nothing in return, but this wouldn't be the case if > someone were siphoning off my work and making money from it. I don't > do this for my own monetary benefit, and certainly not for someone > else's.
... because there is a long history of people taking free scribus resources and making profit out of it.... let's get real: there is almost no chance that somebody can make a huge profit from taking the manual, printing it and selling it. if somebody would dare to do it, i guess that the scribus project as a whole would most profit from it. ciao a.l.e
