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

[watry at steam.coaps.fsu.edu]

Quoting Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:

So the bottom line is unless we allow the tutorials to be repackaged 
and sold for commercial gain, it is not considered open source?

Well , we can not do that, so I guess this means will have work with 
other universities and not through OSGEO.

We will not stop our support of Open Source, it just will not be 
thgrough OSGEO.

> watry at steam.coaps.fsu.edu wrote:
>> Quoting Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
>> The following meets that criteria - Right??
> ...
>> Noncommercial. The user may not use this work for commercial purposes.
>
> Gary,
>
> No, I don't think so.  If this condition was applied to a software license
> it would make the license not fit the free software definition (ie. it would
> not be OSI certifiable).
>
> I concede your right to apply such a condition, but it renders the result
> "non-free" by my software derived standards.
>
> I'd add "The user may not use this work for commercial purposes." is a
> very broad statement.  You have said it could be used in a course, but
> not repackaged for sale.  Well, a conservative business could not comfortable
> use such materials in a paid-for training course without a risk of violating
> the condition regardless of what your intent or interpretation of the clause
> is.
>
> I would say that I think your material is still a great asset, and a great
> contribution even with the current license.  I don't want the message here
> to be "I don't appreciate what you have done".  That is not my intent (nor
> I'm sure Arnulfs).  It's just not completely in line with the foss standards
> I would hold out for with software.
>
> Best regards,
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