I know nothing about Wiki but all my stuff is under GNU Free Document License. As far as I know, the only way to go.
Regards --scrhemmer On Mar 7, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I wanted to spur discussion about part of this, specifically: > > On 10-03-07 10:41 AM, Mike.lifeguard wrote: >> Because Progit (progit.org) is not freely licensed (the license >> forbids commercial use), and contributing to it is unnecessarily >> difficult, I have begun working on a textbook about Git on Wikibooks > > Progit is a textbook about git, which is hosted in a git repository on > GitHub. This means that if you want to fix errors or translate, you > can > fork the repository, make your changes, and the author can incorporate > them if they want to. > > This gives the illusion of being able to contribute, when really your > edits are held hostage by one person. Not only are they a bottleneck, > but they can also refuse to accept your changes. More to the point, in > this case, they don't seem keen on accepting anything that isn't > simply > fixing errata, or translating the English text. > > Have other folks encountered other seemingly-open textbook-writing > efforts that aren't really open upon further inspection? How can we > capitalize on the frustration that might arise when people are > unable to > contribute in practice (or doing so is more difficult than on > Wikibooks)? > > More to the point, I'm concerned (you may have seen my recent posts to > foundation-l) that using Flagged Revisions is killing Wikibooks > because > it is taking us towards this seemingly-open-but-not-really model of > editing, which is contrary to the spirit of openness which got us this > far. I'd be interested to hear whether people think it is time to > abandon the extension, revamp the configuration, or something else. > > Thanks, > - -Mike > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkuTv2UACgkQst0AR/DaKHtprQCfcP+2fOt7ZNvQjoqKED7Q/zbS > ITsAniwLP/HmIL0wJ1qd6KUza8ZSe7G8 > =bB3S > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Textbook-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l _______________________________________________ Textbook-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/textbook-l
