Nupedia Open Content License

Nupedia Open Content Encyclopedia aims to be a general purpose encyclopedia, a true multi-national effort to generate a high quality, unbiased, and *free* Encyclopedia. I would like to invite people to read and critique the Nupedia Open Content License, which you may read at: http://www.nupedia

Re: Free documentation licenses

David Johnson wrote: > The Nupedia license is also unacceptable for various > reasons. I'd be curious to hear what problems the Nupedia license has for your project. As a side note, we are (at the suggestion of RMS) re-considering the GFDL for Nupedia. One major advatage that using a FSF-spons

IPL vs. GPL

Under the IPL, could someone leave in the offending (license key) code, and simply add a little bit of 'code' before and after? /* offending code here */ :-) I.E., we have left in the code while commenting it out so that it has no functionality. If not, then you begin to see how this code is n

Re: Transfer of Copyright

It would be delightful if people could post sample documents for the transfer of copyright. Someone asked something about transfer of copyright to for-profit companies. The idea is that some authors may be wary of transferring their rights to a for-profit company, even though the software has be

Re: 'Browse-wrap' licenses invalid

In such a situation, wouldn't the situation therefore just default to "copyright"? Wouldn't it be correct to say that a license which imposes _additional restrictions_ *beyond copyright* on you is invalid unless you have actually assented, but that a license which grants _additional rights_ is va