Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Sophie Gautier wrote:
We have written the PDL in that way because we wanted to protect
professional author writing under their name. And a lot of our
contributors are professional authors and are really happy with this
notification. This is really not difficult to handle from what we have
seen during the last years.
I totally understand why some professional authors want to have their
work under the PDL. I do not want to take away that choice from those
authors who want to have it, and who are willing to put up with the
"change log" requirements of the license.
However, not all of us (even some professional writers like myself) feel
the need for this protection. Why should those of us who do not want or
need the protection of the PDL be required to submit to it and its
requirements? Why can't we choose a CC license and have our work
accepted in editable form by OOo?
The CC is in charge of which license apply to the project. If you
think that our license are bad or wrong, please submit a request to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I will do that. But understand, I do not think the license choice itself
is bad or wrong; I think it is too limited, and the requirement that
*everyone* must use the chosen license for editable work is wrong.
The PDL has been designed by the documentation project to protect our
documentation and authors. And unfortunately I've been able to see
that it is true. A license is done for that, when somebody try to
keep away the documentation from its author and the PDL is really good
for this, this is what we ask to a license.
Again I ask, what if authors do not want that level of protection? Why
should they be forced to accept it?
I've just spent a bit of time looking on the OOo site to see if work put
into the public domain would be allowed on the website. It's not clear,
but perhaps I just have not found the right place.
Regards, Jean
Jean has fully articulated the point of view from which I contributed to
this licensing discussion. "Protecting" authors and then attempting to
compel them to follow a particular licensing regime is what raised my
hackles. As an author, albeit not a professional one, I reserve the
right to use the licence of my choice. If this prevents publication via
the documentation project, so be it.
Peter HB
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