What license(s) will the book be released under? MZMcBride
Very funny :)
I have just completed my book on Scotus, which will be submitted to the Catholic University Assocation Press next week. Assuming it gets through their lengthy approval process,it will be published under whatever license they use - I imagine the 'evil' one.
So to for the Wikipedia book, but it is early days to approach a publisher.
If you ask why, I reply that no method has yet been devised to give attribution to the author of a work in a way that advances their career. I will earn little or no money from either work, I imagine. Note that Andrew Lih's book, which I have ordered from Waterstone's, is also under a standard copright license. At least I assume - I paid good money for it, because it was not available any other way.
However, I do publish material on my own website, the Logic Museum. I fund this myself, and the translation work such as here
http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Authors/Ockham/Summa_Logicae
is published under a 'free' license. http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/The_Logic_Museum:Copyrights
I don't get any formal recognition for this. I do it because I want this material, which is very hard to get access to, even for subject matter experts, to be freely available to everyone on the planet.
Edward