[TOS] Using FLOSS Manuals for textbook authoring

adam hyde adam at flossmanuals.net
Mon Aug 24 06:39:37 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:15 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
> 2009/8/23 adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>:
> > how does   dual license sound? (ugh..i hate these license thingys)...
> 
> I can't speak for the community as a whole, so my comments are only my
> own. Since we already discussed and agreed on a CC-BY-SA licence I'd
> much rather stick to that. I don't see any need to dual licence. I
> could be persuaded if we were talking about a licence that was
> appropriate for text, or if there were a need to use some other
> licence. But dual licencing under the GPL makes no sense to me at all
> - it will only serve to confuse things in my opinion.

well, we like to keep it in gpl as then the material can be used in
other manuals/textbooks within fm...this is a big advantage to others. 

> 
> What do others think?
> 
> > as for the copyright - yes it can (and will) be reassigned...dont worry,
> > FM is not out to own everyones copyright, and nor am I. The default is
> > that whoever creates a chapter gets the copyright. if u like i can make
> > all copyright for the manual to the 'TOS Authors' or some
> > such...whatever you like, just let me know
> 
> We still need to figure out the contributor agreements here, which
> will allow us to decide who is to hold copyright on the collated
> materials. It's fine to leave it as it is right now. The key thing is
> that we can change it when we know what we want to change it to.
> 

ok

> I'd like to get this stuff sorted out so that we can actually start
> contributing content.
> 

ok...

if you really want just cc, i will set it up like this, but it would be
cool if you would consider dual licensing the material

adam



> Thanks.
> 
> Ross
> 
> >
> > adam
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 15:06 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
> >> 2009/8/12 adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net>:
> >>
> >> > There is a book ready for you here:
> >> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering
> >>
> >> http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/PracticalOSSEngineering/Credits
> >> indicates that the licence for the text if GPL2 which is a software
> >> licence and entirely unnacceptable (at least to me). We have already
> >> agreed that we will use CC-BY-SA.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, the copyright notice says "Copyright : © adam hyde 2006,
> >> 2007, 2009 (GPL)" Again, this is unnacceptable (at least to me).
> >>
> >> I assume that this is a result of the default settings and can be
> >> resolved, but how? Surely things like copyright can only be changed by
> >> the owner of the document.
> >>
> >> Ross
> > --
> > Adam Hyde
> > Founder FLOSS Manuals
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> > Email : adam at flossmanuals.net
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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