Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-12 Thread Andreas Röhler
On 12.08.2016 06:48, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:42:39 AM UTC+12, Reto Brunner wrote: What on earth isn't "free" enough about You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format No you are not. A court has ruled

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Paul Rubin
Charles Ross writes: > Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. That means you can post it on wikibooks.org and let people edit it directly, if you want. Wikibooks is nowhere near as crazy as wikipedia. --

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 1:09:31 PM UTC+12, Charles Ross wrote: > Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Great. :) That’s the one to use if you are worried about companies who want something for nothing coming in and ripping

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:42:39 AM UTC+12, Reto Brunner wrote: > What on earth isn't "free" enough about > > You are free to: > Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format No you are not. A court has ruled

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
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 wrote: > >> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
> 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

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Lutz Horn
Regarding the CC-BY-NC-SA license: Am 09.08.16 um 17:42 schrieb Reto Brunner: > What on earth isn't "free" enough about [...] > It is even a viral (copy left) licence, so even a fsf member should > be happy The FSF considers the CC-BY-NC to *not* be a license for free documentation[1]: > This

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Reto Brunner writes: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016, 16:59 Lutz Horn wrote: > >> Am 08/09/2016 um 03:52 AM schrieb Charles Ross: >> > The book is being hosted at https://github.com/chivalry/meta-python >> >> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech)

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Reto Brunner wrote: > What on earth isn't "free" enough about > > You are free to: > Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format > > Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material > > The licensor cannot revoke

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Michael Selik
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:23 AM Charles Ross wrote: > I’ve begun a new book called Meta Python that I’m looking for assistance > with. The book is one I wish was out there, and so am writing. The book is > targeted at experienced programmers who are novice Python users and want

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Reto Brunner
What on earth isn't "free" enough about You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms. It is even a viral (copy left)

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Lutz Horn
Am 08/09/2016 um 03:52 AM schrieb Charles Ross: The book is being hosted at https://github.com/chivalry/meta-python CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech) content. Is that what you want? Lutz -- https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ --

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
You’re right. I should have mentioned that this is a volunteer effort on my part and anyone else who becomes involved. It’s being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tuesday 09 August 2016 11:52, Charles Ross wrote: > I’ve begun a new book called Meta Python that I’m looking for assistance > with. Are you looking for people to be co-authors? Are you offering payment, or credit? A free copy of the book? A kick to the head? Or just looking for volunteers

Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
I’ve begun a new book called Meta Python that I’m looking for assistance with. The book is one I wish was out there, and so am writing. The book is targeted at experienced programmers who are novice Python users and want to move from that point to one where they have published to PyPI. I’m