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Re: Debian book



David Wiley wrote:
> If you could forward this information on to whomever is concerned, I
> would appreciate it.
> 
> There is a license available now specifically for publications called
> the Open Publication license. It was co-created by esr, myself, Tim
> O'Reilly, Larry Augustin, Laurie Petrycki (an editor at New Riders,
> formally with Macmillan), and other community members. It may suit the
> author(s)'(s) needs better than the GPL.

I think the book was placed under the GPL because it inherited from an
earlier, GPL'd document.

> The license is available online at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/

It doesn't look like debian has looked at this license, I'm passing it on to
debian-legal for comment.

-- 
see shy jo


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