Re: Documentation license problem solved: OpenContent License (OPL)
Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> writes:
[cited from opencontent License]
> 1. You may copy and distribute exact replicas of the OpenContent (OC)
> as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
> appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and
> disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
> License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other
> recipients of the OC a copy of this License along with the OC. You may
> at your option charge a fee for the media and/or handling involved in
> creating a unique copy of the OC for use offline, you may at your
> option offer instructional support for the OC in exchange for a fee,
> or you may at your option offer warranty in exchange for a fee. You
> may not charge a fee for the OC itself. You may not charge a fee
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
As I understand it, GPL does not put this restriction on the content
it licenses.
> for
> the sole service of providing access to and/or use of the OC via a
> network (e.g. the Internet), whether it be via the world wide web,
> FTP, or any other method.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(How about telephone costs? ;-)
[...]
OpenContent wants to make sure the "content" is free
GPL wants to make sure the source is with you -- always.
GPL applied to documentation ensures the content is free, or doesn't it?
What`s the point with another license?
Jens
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