As some of you know, we are working on the project [1] with Matica
srpska [2]. Basically, that opens numerous possibilities and here is
one of them.
My professor, a Board member of Matica srpska and one of two
co-authors of the Normative Grammar of Serbian Language wants to open
the Grammar.
Before I continue, I want to explain how good faith academics and
university professors in Serbia treat their work in relation to the
open and free access (and I suppose it's quite common for any part of
the world):
* Personally, they are not motivated by money. They are well
established socially, financially secure and they are mature people,
not fascinated by luxury, living modest lives.
* They want their works to be as much accessible as it's possible, as
well as as much used by other scientists as it's possible.
* The only financial issue in such circumstances is related to the
financial safety of particular institution (in this case Matica
srpska). However, financial gains from selling the books are
relatively small, it's about capital works and having them is a kind
of obligation of every intellectual in Serbia and it's questionable
would they lose (small amount of) money by opening the content or they
would actually gain. In other words, I am addressing this issue on the
level of going slowly to the process and making financial analysis of
every step.
* They don't really get variety of the licensing options. For them,
it's practically the same if it's CC-BY or Encarta web license. If
they open content, their default is that they are not counting on
money from published books.
* The only issue which they have is to keep their integrity and not to
present their work as their if it could be edited by anyone. (Thus,
inclusion of the dictionaries will go in the form similar to "Milos,
based on Serbian Ornithological Dictionary".)
And all of those things are clear while we are talking about regular content.
What we have here is the *Normative* Grammar. From my perspective,
that can't go under anything which doesn't assume ND part. Obviously
to me, if something is prescriptive work, it should go as-is.
However, that's my initial assumption. If there is an option to open
it more freely, I'd be happy to hear the argumentation.
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionary_Meets…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Matica_srpska