discuss: (in addition) Re: LDP Licence
Subject:
Re: (in addition) Re: LDP Licence
From:
Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
Date:
23 Dec 2003 20:46:34 -0000
Message-Id: <1072212365.18319.152.camel@mysticchild>
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 12:13, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
>
> > Okay, just did the side-by-side comparison. It's not that I object to
> > the changes - I think they're great. But now, since that was relatively
> > easy and the changes seemed fine, I now want to compare that to what
> > Creative Commons has. I'm also going to head over to gnu.org and look
> > on their license page again (I don't recall the URL but they also have
> > some interesting information about the subject and varieties).
>
> I'm pretty sure you mean http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html .
> It's a valuable page to know about, althought their primary emphasis is
> (1) on licences primarily intended for software, and (2) focussed on
> assessing GPL-compatibility (along with whether or not the licence in
> question is free or not).
In taking a look at this, for the first time in a while, you make a good
point. I also found things a bit outdated or lacking in some newer
information. Though it's slightly different,
www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html also provides some interesting
information, though it's more software-oriented. It might not help, but
it's a good example of describing varieties, which was sort of what I
was after.
> I've added that page to http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Licensing_and_Law as
> "FSF Licence Analysis".
Cool!
> The closest FSF comes to discussing _documentation_ is at
> http://www.fsf.org/licenses/licenses.html in two passages:
<snipped for space>
> For other kinds of works, we recommend you consider the licenses
> proposed by Creative Commons.
>
> Reminder: The licences at Creative Commons are diverse, and include
> both forkable ("ShareAlike") and proprietary licences.
A little more detail there would be nice. :D
> (FSF also urges inclusion of the full licence text into documents,
> rather than use of URLs.)
It's understandable, but weighty with smaller docs. :D Maybe it's due
to the unreliability of URLs?
Tab
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