On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 07:18 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:39:37AM +0200, adam hyde wrote:
> Our lawyer friends really like the CC BY et al licensing. From what I > understand, the GPL is not considered to be a good license for > content. It can be used and has been used on many occasions, but > there is a reason why free content licenses have been developed. im not sure i agree,...the gpl is actually a great content license. i think content licenses were created because everyone believed the gpl was a code-only license, which it isnt (its also equally applicable to content) but in either case, just lemme know what you want to do...i hate licenses actually...they just slow everything down and make reuse complex... adam > > In Fedora, we are currently relicensing all of our documentation from > the alive-but-deprecated OPL to the CC BY SA 3.0. One main reason for > doing this is to move from a small island mainly by ourselves to a > very large continent full of free content that we can mingle with. > > That said, the GPL is listed as approved for docs and content in > general, but there are practical reasons against it. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Documentation_Licenses > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Content_Licenses > > So, the irony is, a big reason to use the CC licensing is to be > compatible with many other works in the world. The request here to > use the GPL as well is to be compatible with other works in > FLOSSManuals.net. > > It's seems more complex to dual-license, but I'm willing to listen. > > Also, I'm curious why FLOSSManuals.net uses the GPL for documentation > instead of a purpose-built doc license? > > - Karsten > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > tos@teachingopensource.org > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- Adam Hyde Founder FLOSS Manuals German mobile : + 49 15 2230 54563 Email : a...@flossmanuals.net irc: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals "Free manuals for free software" http://www.flossmanuals.net/about _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
