-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Folks, we have a stub about licenses for educational material in our Wiki, feel free to update it to reflect our current understanding of the issue.
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Licenses_for_Education_Material Best regards, Arnulf Hamish wrote: >> * I think that the OSGeo-Live project should mandate that >> Project Overviews should be available to be used under a >> CC-BY (without the viral "Share Alike"). > > please don't conflate my gift to humanity with a computer virus, > or some autoimmune disease which parasites on the rest, often > destroying the host; thanks. > > it's a nasty turn of phrase which was quite deliberately > invented to skew an otherwise meaningful discussion. > > Copyleft does not infect you; you consciously decide to buy it, > or not. > > </pet peve> > > > also while in the sensitive words dept., you do not "mandate" > a team of volunteers if you hope for them to stick around for any > period of time. > >> However, there is significant cost involved in creating >> training material, and training is one way OSGeo businesses >> make money. Is it ok for OSGeo businesses to incorporate >> quickstarts into their much greater training material, but >> not give the training material back? > > I invite you to have a look at some of the existing commercial/ > consulting firm's training material, who were happy to give back. > The key I think is getting a reputation as the go-to company for > training on some particular area, not just being in sole control > of some quickly outdated PDF. > http://www.gdf-hannover.de/media.php?lg=en > http://www.gdf-hannover.de/leistungen.php?id=3&lg=en > > > best, > Hamish > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss - -- Exploring Space, Time and Mind http://arnulf.us -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk39+n8ACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b3PigCdEeBEsLFRHrTaxhUsSs8HA2ir 6XAAnj5J9glXN6LqDz7B0yt7wyvcGcxQ =h2S+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss