On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:20:27 +0000 Sean B. Palmer wrote: > On Jan 1, 2008 10:39 AM, Francesco Poli wrote: > > > (typo: my name is Francesco, not Francisco...) > > Argh, sorry. Too much Hamlet! Heh! ;-) > > I've expanded the article this morning, and corrected the typo. I haven't had the time to fully re-read it, but I noticed something: the document is released under the terms of CC-by-nd-v2.0, which is utterly non-free. I wonder why you want to be so permissive with your programs, while you decide to be so restrictive with this document... :-( I always recommend against any Creative Commons license. v1.0, v2.0 and v2.5 licenses fail to meet the DFSG: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/04/msg00031.html http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html My opinion is that v3.0 licenses also fail to meet the DFSG: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/03/msg00105.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00176.html On the other hand, other people (including the FTP masters) seem to disagree with me and think that CC-by-v3.0 and CC-by-sa-v3.0 meet the DFSG... :-( Disclaimers again: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. [...] > > Secondly, I think that the license text says "the above copyright > > notice" just because it is designed to be included verbatim in > > each file. > > People don't include it verbatim in each file, though. James Clark > doesn't do that in Expat, for example! > > "See the file copying.txt for copying permission." > - e.g. expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c Interesting, I wasn't aware of that... -- http://frx.netsons.org/progs/scripts/refresh-pubring.html New! Version 0.6 available! What? See for yourself! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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