Hello,
I am the french author of this book.
I want this book open, so i can change de licence if we need.
Wich one would be safe ?
cc-By ?
Regards,
Elisa
2017-05-02 16:57 GMT+02:00 brynn <br...@frii.com>:
> 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 We can't get stuck with an outdated manual and have no way to edit it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 <ma...@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
> >>>
> >>
>
>
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