On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:23 AM, David Joyner wrote: > 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.
Much of the headache in choosing a license is that there are already too many open source licenses out there, often with slight, non- obvious incompatibilities. Unless we need something truly unique, let's not make another. > I am personally happy with the GFDL 1.3, but some might find it > a bit of overkill. It does seem kind of absurd to use a license that is more verbose (and impenetrable, one hopes) than the presentation it is attached to. However, if no license is attached, then the default copyright that is applied is the most restrictive. I generally favor the Creative Commons license(s) for these kinds of things, but even the Attribution clause might become onerous after a while (would one have to include a list of slide acknowledgments and license statement in every talk? Actually, I would be OK with this). I think the wiki should say at the top something like "Unless otherwise stated, the talks below are in the public domain and can be copied and re-used without any restriction." One would, of course, have to get permission before uploading anyone else's talk. If people want to choose a different license, they are free to specify one. - Robert > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
