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Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing |
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Review of the Full Description |
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2004-06-16 17:19:37 |
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Nick Urbanik
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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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"This book will show you the licenses, explain how they can be used, and give you the information needed to make informed decisions. Knowing the details, the factual ones and not the FUD, will make you the 'go to' person when these type of questions arise."
--Brian Turner, Free Software Magazine
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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.
