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Subject: Re: [docbook] Re: Free Shared Glossart Database of Computing Terms
On Friday 21 January 2005 14:28, Binh Nguyen wrote: > --- Sean Wheller <sean@enbaya.co.za> wrote: > > > > Thanks for your response. I am glad that you brought > > this to our attention. In > > the message referenced above, you provided license > > under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0 [1]. > > If such a project is to be undertaken and improved > > by a community, then I do > > not think it will work under this license. Reason is > > simple, there can be no > > guarantee that all or part of your work will not end > > up in some distro or > > desktop or even a closed source program. In which > > case selling the distro or > > desktop or closed source technology in any form or > > circumstance would be a > > contravention of CC-BY-NC-SA. I therefore think > > the license should be > > CC-BY-SA 2.0 [2]. > > I became aware of these issues a few days later and I > made those concessions to the linuxquestions.org > people. I'm willing to make these concessions to you > as well. Super news. Great thanks a million. > > Regarding copyright laws, I expect that we would > > have to place some disclaimer > > of liability to third parties and advertise a code > > of ethics to contributors. > > On the other hand, as a community project I am not > > sure that there would be > > anyone to take legal action against if somebody were > > to verbatim copy and > > paste. However, in general you are right, this is a > > problem to be managed. > > This is one of the reasons why you'll see after each > definition in my dictionary, From 'yadda-yadda-yadda'. > If there is a violation I can remove the offending > material without too much fuss. Yes, I see this. I think it is a good idea to provide attributions. > > Under CC-BY-SA 2.0 [2] ? > > Yes :) Oki doke! That settles it then. > > > If so, I would be willing > > to publish, package and > > market it myself and return proceeds to the > > community. Not saying there would > > be millions, but we may be able to raise enough for > > a few bounties to do > > specific house keeping things like QA. This said, I > > would however have to > > check this with legal council, for publishing in > > print or package could make > > me directly responsible for copyright issues, > > eventhough they were not > > directly induced by me. > > Huh, you're a publisher? > No not a publisher, an author so I have knowledge of publishing. -- Sean Wheller http://www.inwords.co.za
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