Re: Open Information

2000-01-19 Thread torsten
Dear Gabe, Dennis, John, Frank, Thanks a lot for the info about OpenContent and OSWG. In fact, I'm not so much of a software guy, and I think these were exactly the people I was looking for. However, I'm a bit reluctant about OpenContent, particularly when a publisher can block other paper

Open Information

2000-01-13 Thread torsten
). There as well we have a risk of things being monopolized with all its well-known consequences. So I took some time over the Christmas holidays and adapted some Open Source documents to the concept of Open Information, which could be actually a generalization of the Open Source concept. I attach

Re: Open Information

2000-01-13 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I took some time over the Christmas holidays and adapted some Open Source documents to the concept of Open Information, Consider coordinating your efforts with Open Content (http://www.opencontent.org), which has an Open Content license. -- Schlingt dreifach

Re: Open Information

2000-01-13 Thread John Cowan
Gabe Wachob wrote: But the realities are different for different types of material. I agree. In particular, though, documentation of software should be licensed the same as the software, so that the two can be updated in parallel. It is little use being able to change a program, if you have