On 04/10/2012 12:17 PM, JLuc wrote: > Le 10/04/2012 14:55, Gregory Pittman a ?crit : >> On 04/10/2012 08:26 AM, a.l.e wrote: >>> >>> so, the problem is not that one has to contribute back to scribus (which >>> could be done with a standard OPL license... >> >> http://opencontent.org/openpub/ > > That page is outdated : > links and emails in the appendix are dead. > I didnt try the mailing list yet. > Nonetheless, I can't find any other mention of the OPL that substantially deviates from this. O'Reilly has a number of references to it that are substantially no different.
One of the characteristics of documentation is similar to other kinds of nonfiction and fiction writing. I can freely rewrite the content of almost anything, it just requires that I rewrite the material, not simply copy it. Software is quite different, you can't paraphrase a program and expect it to work. Therefore, I don't think that the two are really comparable. Paraphrasing, while simple, isn't so easy. The small number of comprehensive documentation efforts in regard to Scribus is testimony to the difficulty of actually sitting down and getting the job done. I'm more than happy to contribute documentation to the Scribus project and get nothing in return, but this wouldn't be the case if someone were siphoning off my work and making money from it. I don't do this for my own monetary benefit, and certainly not for someone else's. Greg
