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Book:   Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
Subject:   Review of the Full Description
Date:   2004-06-16 17:19:37
From:   Nick Urbanik
Academics are befuddled by the range of licenses for publishing teaching material. Witness the confusion on the ,a href="http://bat.vr.ucl.ac.uk/pipermail/otb/">Open Text Book mailing list. Should we choose GFDL, Open Publication License, or which of the variety of available Creative Commons licenses? What are the consequenses of each choice?


I was eager to read about these, then found that these issues are missing from the Full Description. I would hope that there is at least some discussion of this important and little understood topic.
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  • Simon St. Laurent photo documentation licenses,  June 21 2004
    Submitted by Anonymous Reader   [Respond | View]

    The book doesn't cover the GFDL or Open Publication License in any depth, though it does cover the Creative Commons licenses.

    The GFDL and OPL are both designed for a different business and legal environment than software, and tend to be used specifically for documentation. I'm hoping we can get the author to take a look at them in articles, but they aren't in the book itself.
 
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