discuss: a right to a new maintainer(Was Re: licenses)
Subject:
Re: a right to a new maintainer(Was Re: licenses)
From:
Rick Moen ####@####.####
Date:
18 Dec 2003 06:24:44 -0000
Message-Id: <20031218062436.GI9850@linuxmafia.com>
Quoting Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
> I think OPL and Creative Commons are very good alternatives also. Is
> there an official FSF position on the wording of these two? I'd be
> interested in finding out.
Note that Creative Commons offers a _spectrum_ of licences, specialised
for particular purposes: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ I
became interested in both those and David Wiley's Open Publication
License (OPL) / Open Content License pair as the author of a fair amount
of publicly published documentation, myself.
Wiley says, on http://www.opencontent.org/ :
I'm closing OpenContent because I think Creative Commons is doing a
better job of providing licensing options which will stand up in court.
As I close OpenContent, I join Creative Commons as Director of
Educational Licenses.
Taking him at his word, I eschewed OPL/OCL and looked at CC's offerings,
and found t hat the "Attribution-ShareAlike" licence met most of my
needs, e.g., for use on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/ . (That's not
appropriate for my personal writings/essays, which is a topic for
another day.)
I noted that Creative Commons recommends the GFDL for software
documentation. If anyone's still interested in that topic, here's a
concise and useful summary of critiques posted to debian-legal:
http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
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