[OSGeo-Edu] Free and open source your documentation efforts

[watry at steam.coaps.fsu.edu]

Quoting Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
The following meets that criteria - Right??

The only restriction on its use is that you can not sell it or 
repackage it in any form and sell it.

Attribution - Non-Commercial ? Share-A-like 2.5
The users are free:
? to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
? to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

Attribution. The User must attribute the work in the manner specified by the
author or licensor.

Noncommercial. The user may not use this work for commercial purposes.

Share Alike.  If the user alter, transform, or build upon this work, 
the user  may distribute the resulting work only under a license 
identical to this one.
? For any reuse or distribution, the user must make clear to others the 
license terms of this work.
? Any of these conditions can be waived if the user get permission from 
the copyright holder.
The user?s fair use and other rights are in no way affected by the above.

> Arnulf Christl wrote:
>> Lets put it the other way round. What makes me (with commercial interest
>> and all) publish my course work under a free license? Its not that I am
>> stupid (I hope) but that I simply apply the FOSS licensing model which
>> works great to training material too.
>
> Folks,
>
> I haven't been following this discussion very closely, but ultimately I
> think the foundation is going to value and support materials provided under
> true FOSS licensing standards for the same reasons we apply them to software.
>
> I don't question anyone's right to distribute training materials under any
> license they want when they are creating them.  And if they are useful in
> training folks on FOSS we (OSGeo) may utilize them, offer to extend them,
> promote them, etc.
>
> But ultimately the most desirable scenario will be materials that meet
> the "free software test" of being able to repurpose, repackage, modify, and
> so forth as desired.
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
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> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>
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