Does the NPDL license mean that I can do anything with the content/source/item provided I let everyone else do whatever they want to do with it such that they do the same ?
Forgive my ignorance, I am hearing of it for the first time. Is it an OSI approved license? On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote: > INAL. TINLA. > > Well, is this my first article against Creative Commons License. actually > not. I am not against any license scheme. I want to express in this article > is creative commons and anyother license is not made for you - (the normal > public). There are better license exist which can help you for creative a > better world. > Lets us first discuss some of the things. > > *For whom this article made for* > * *This article is made for user who have small understanding over > license and other similar thing. But we are the guys who create some > resource like write article, post on our facebook wall, we create good > tutorial by discussion on mailing list. we even blog, one or two article per > day. We are the typical person who want to live in a world where we can > reuse other content of the world. We want to reuse the content may be for > presentation, may be for any other purpose. We create content and we give to > world, we do not want to care about who use this content and in what manner. > we even do not to have our name on the content because even if somebody > knows my name what he hell I will gain out of it. At the same time , we are > reusing content of other too. we really like one lick sharing button of > every things to my network and we got fed up of all moronic license which > are difficult to understand. Till date, I am able to understand only single > license which is -- which is "copyright , all right reserved". we > understand this license and we never reuse or do anything which this kind of > notice. we observed that there are several licenses exist in the world. we > live in FOSS communities where Creative Commons is a respectful license so > we are just using it without reading it text. we have tried 1-2 times to > read and understand it but we failed to do so. Creative License has country > wise version. For example CC-By-SA-2.5-In or CC-By-SA-2.5-uk. To my > knowledge remixing of license from different countries is not clear. we have > to re-read again and again and get some legal advice to remix content of two > license which are separated by counties. Even we do not know how to remix > CC-By and CC-By-SA. When we tried to remix content, we face a hell lot of > problem. Problem is - "If you increase the text of license, it kill you". > Creative commons have some bad terms. Some guys put "NC" - non-commercial > over their content. Share-Alike is itself a non-commercial. When everybody > has right to do same thing then automatically price reduce. For example, if > somebody want to sell your article then yes, selling is not bad. he has to > recover price of printing page. Good part is everybody is allowed to do so, > so automatically price reduce even if you do not put any NC clause. > We even are so much dump that we even do not know how to give proper > attribution. We want to live in a world where we write our content under > certain license so that anybody from this world can reuse it in any manner. > we understand the problem like if somebody just want to copy paste one > paragraph from each of 10 articles then it will be difficult to attribute > properly. So we people do not want to say anything on attribution. We says > just use it. at the most we are happy with giving a back link like some of > the content are used from this source - "" but this is an optional step. > We people understand that public domain is not valid in some countries > otherwise we would have chosen public license for work. > so, we want a license which is very near to public domain and definition > should so small that it should never give any confusion over reusing > contents. > One Last comment : we want to make it viral. > > *The Answer* > I do not have good legal understanding, but I thing following > License will be vaild in all countries. Do let me know what you feel about > this license scheme. > > +++++++++++ Start ++++++++++++ > *(c) 2010, Narendra Sisodiya, http://narendrasisodiya.com This work is > release under NPDL license. > * > > *Terms and Conditions of NPDL License: > Permission is hereby granted, to use/reuse this work in any manner, > provided any use/reuse of the work must be released under NPDL license.* > +++++++++++ end ++++++++++++ > > > Replace you name, year and your website, if you want to use this license > for your work. > NPDL is a viral license. It says, you are allowed to do anything with the > work but it pause a condition that resulting work should contains the same > license. > > > *ReUse of NPDL Content* > If You find two 10 article which are released under NPDL, then you > can reuse it in any manner. All you need to put a common license notice. > Best thing is adviced is to give credit it in terms of url of source. If > somebody do not delete the license text (which is the header) then you can > take photocopy, scan it or do any thing withit. Without even thinking for it > legality to do so. You can even reuse the NPDL licensed articles into any > other license. for example if you are writing a book then you can says - > "copyright, all right reserved to author but some section are released under > NPDL. See the list of these section at the end of book". > One thing you cannot do it to reuse other copyright work for NPDL. for > example you cannot take a CC-By-SA image and release under NPDL license. > NPDL is best for incremental wiki or knowledge resources where everyone put > their small contribution. > > *One Last word, Imagine the world where a huge amount of knowledge is > available under NPDL license. Next generation will thanks a lot to us who > will create this new world of instant sharing without any hurdle* > > > Please write your thought on it. I am not a lawyer so I cannot give 100% > legal advice. Write to me at > narendra AT narendrasisodiya.com > > > -- > ┌─────────────────────────┐ > │ Narendra Sisodiya > │ http://narendrasisodiya.com > └─────────────────────────┘ > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
