Sanford Forte wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
They'll bring up all kinds of nonsense about copyleft. But if we must, especially at first, present a GNU book, then that's OK --
If that would solve the problem, great. It's so important to get the first project (pilot) done in a way that is 'simple' to understand by all concerned.
I'm strongly sympathetic to Karl's concerns that contributions to wikibooks should automatically go under the GNU FDL. But I have no objection if the pilot project, for whatever reason, ends up being distributed (as a finished material) under the GNU FDL. The important thing is that the wiki source be as open as possible; if every finished text from now until whenever ends up having to go under the GNU licence (because it uses a module covered only under the GNU licence), then that's OK with me if that's how it ends up.
But Karl's OChem text doesn't have to use the GNU FDL, so if someday his text is printed up, then that may be freer.
-- Toby