Joel R Schlosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Section 3 of the Design Science License, it states that > distribution of the Object Form of a work under the DSL requires that > "a copy of this License is distributed along with the Work." In many > cases, it is easy to include a copy of the license with the Work, for > example when distributing a copy online, or when distributing a > full-length book. However, there are cases where it would be hard to > distribute a copy of the License with a Work.
I am looking into a better way to do this, so that it isn't so much of a hassle on the part of the publisher, but so that people also know how to get the sources should they want them. It will be clarified in an update to the license, which should happen soon. It should not be necessary to include a copy of the license when distributing a work in object form; including the full sources (which would contain a copy of the license with its copyright information) will still be one option, but you should be able to include just a written offer for the sources or (if you are not a commercial entity), pass along someone else's written offer and not include the license at all. I expected that some improvements would have to be made to the license. This is definitely one of them. > An example I've been involved with directly is the following: I and > several other students in activist groups at New York University are > considering using copyleft with material we create. A good deal of > our material, such as fact sheets, flyers, and short articles, are > very short, in many cases no more than a single page. You should be able to distribute this material with just a short copyright notice, and provide the sources to the material should anyone want them. There's been recent discussion on this very subject (distributing copylefted materials to students) by other educators on debian-legal: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200202/msg00099.html
