CR, Brynn, I can not more highly recommend using CC-BY-SA, because it has attribution (which I think we've cleared up prior) and contains the appropriate copyleft.
It's the license I would expect to use, it's the one that fits most with Inkscape as a project and it's the one we use on the website. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 08:57 -0600, brynn wrote: > Retitled - "License for the new manual" (was "Any chance we can make > some > docs.....") Also copying in Sylvain, since he's been working on > translation. I > know there's another translator, but I can't seem to open the manual > today, to > look it up. So if someone knows who that is, please copy them in to > this new > thread. > > > > > We should sort out what license we will offer the new manual under > > as > a first step, before starting any work. We need to reach a consensus > before work can proceed. > > Well, considering work has already started on the manual (the > translating part), > we might be a little behind the 8 ball. But I agree that we need to > nail down > the license asap. > > Retitling this to start the discussion. > > > > > Also, according to > https://fr.flossmanuals.net/start-with-inkscape/about-this-book/ > This document is GPL v3. > I recommend against choosing this license, as it requires all other > content used along with the parts of it to be gpl 3, which is > unnecessarily restrictive, especially for a document of this type. > > Well that's the same license as Inkscape. How is it too restrictive? > > For me, the main point is that it needs a license that will allow > anyone to edit > it. We can't get stuck with an outdated manual and have no way to > edit it (as a > community), ever again. > > All best, > brynn > > -----Original Message----- > From: C R > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2017 4:22 AM > To: brynn > Cc: Nicolas Dufour ; Maren Hachmann ; inkscape-devel ; Inkscape-Docs > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Any chance we can make > some docs > material? (targeting the moon) > > Also, according to > https://fr.flossmanuals.net/start-with-inkscape/about-this-book/ > > This document is GPL v3. > I recommend against choosing this license, as it requires all other > content used along with the parts of it to be gpl 3, which is > unnecessarily restrictive, especially for a document of this type. > > We should sort out what license we will offer the new manual under as > a first step, before starting any work. We need to reach a consensus > before work can proceed. > > -C > > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:14 AM, C R <caj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Is anyone discussing a copyrighted book or manual at this point? If > > so, let's not. It's Copyleft or Public Domain. No proprietary books > > or > > content should be included in official Inkscape documentation. We > > need > > to be able to freely revise, edit, distribute without the legal > > entanglements. > > > > -C > > > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:28 AM, brynn <br...@frii.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > - How does version control work for booktype? > > > > > > This question will probably make more sense when you make the > > > next post you > > > promised from a different message. I had asked why we were > > > talking about > > > using gitlab and all that, if we were still focused on the FLOSS > > > translation/manual. And you said you had an idea to present that > > > you didn't > > > have time at that moment. > > > > > > I can't really see a marriage of these 2 projects (free manual, > > > copyrighted > > > book of tutorials). But I'm looking forward to hearing your > > > proposal :-) > > > > > > All best, > > > brynn > > > > > > -----Original Message----- From: Maren Hachmann > > > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2017 1:28 PM > > > To: Nicolas Dufour ; brynn ; C R > > > Cc: inkscape-devel ; Inkscape-Docs > > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Any chance we can > > > make some > > > docs material? (targeting the moon) > > > > > > > > > Hi Nicolas :D, > > > > > > thank you! > > > > > > What I would like to know (and what is now buried deep in the > > > email > > > stream) is: > > > > > > - How does version control work for booktype? Could it be > > > combined with > > > a git repository, or does it use a fully independent system? > > > (I couldn't find a direct hint, maybe it's just using the django > > > database to keep track of changes/edits?) > > > > > > - What is the source file format of booktype? Markdown? (guessing > > > from > > > the requirements for pip) > > > > > > Regards, > > > Maren > > > > > > Am 01.05.2017 um 21:08 schrieb Nicolas Dufour: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm just back from two weeks away, and as the thread is very > > > > long now > > > > I didn't find time to read everything. Sorry if I'm off-topic. > > > > > > > > Le Lundi 1 mai 2017 13h07, Maren Hachmann <maren@goos-habermann > > > > .de> a > > > > écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I only wish Nicolas or Elisa could be here to give us some > > > > > more > > > > > in-depth > > > > > > > > > > > > > > info about their server's capabilities > > > > > > > > > > > > Not sure what you mean. Of course the Inkscape project can use > > > > the > > > > French FM server for the translation, but note that an English > > > > version also exists (http://write.flossmanuals.net/). It would > > > > probably be easier to work on the English server directly. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > and their book's licencing. > > > > > > > > If I remember correctly, the GPLv2 was the first license that > > > > was > > > > chosen when the FM project was created about 10 years ago, and > > > > some > > > > books still use it. But the server allows users to choose a > > > > different > > > > license when creating a new book (CC, GPL, PD). As for the > > > > Inkscape > > > > book, I see it's under a GPLv3. I don't know if it can be > > > > changed > > > > (and how) or not. Elisa could probably give more details. > > > > > > > > Regards, -- Nicolas > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs
