Should we consider creating our own "Sage documentation license"? As was pointed out, "public domain" not only doesn't exist in some countries, it also isn't a license technically speaking.
I am personally happy with the GFDL 1.3, but some might find it a bit of overkill. Comments? Unless people think this is a silly idea, maybe I could start a new thread? On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Albrecht wrote: >> >> I suppose my preferred copyright statement is something like this: "I don't >> care what you do with these slides and I happily provide TeX sources. You >> might violate someone's copyright though, but that is your problem." Don't >> get me wrong: You are of course right and I cannot make any copyright >> statements about my slides. >> >> In any case, licensing nontrivial source code is necessary but I really think >> that applying the same modell to a bunch of slides is overkill IMHO. > > > Well, since William basically said that anyone could do what they wanted > with his slides (if I recall correctly; is that right, William?), I > think he basically put them in public domain, which means that these > issues are resolved. It would help if he explicitly said that his > slides on such-and-such server are in public domain. > > Then there are no copying issues and copyright issues (at least in the > U.S.). You could then put your slides (your original slides and your > modifications of William's) in public domain with no problems. > > Jason > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
