On 24 Oct, Deb Richardson wrote:
> In my opinion, for the sake of simplicity, any documentation having the
> following characteristics should be allowed:
>
> 1) it can be freely reformatted
> 2) it can be freely distributed
I'm presuming 'reformatted' includes translations or conversions of
documents into other document format standards e.g. SGML->plain text.
If so I think it's worth making that clear.
Or to keep things simple, you could ensure that the license conditions
refer to the text forming the semantic content, rather than any
meta-text in the document.
I'd add:
3) must allow translations into other languages.
as a mandatory freedom.
I think it very important that the agreed list of baseline
document freedoms be captured somewhere and published with
the list of complying licenses. It is the baseline that will be most
important when in future we're trying to determine if a license is
appropriate or not.
regards
Terry
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