Hi all -
OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash with them and dig into them. Gottit. It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that? I'm thinking there must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze. Does anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC licenses, the GFDL, etc?
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On 02/12/2007, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all -
OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash with them and dig >into them. Gottit. It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that? I'm thinking there >must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge >of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze. Does >anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC >licenses, the GFDL, etc?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright_licenses
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
Hoi, Given that the FSF and the CC and the WMF have agreed on a way to move forward all current descriptions of the existing licenses do not show on what basis the new agreement is based. Thanks, GerardM
On Dec 2, 2007 10:37 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/12/2007, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all -
OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash
with them and dig >into them. Gottit. It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that?
I'm thinking there >must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge >of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze. Does >anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC
licenses, the GFDL, etc?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Copyright_licenses
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
-- geni
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On Dec 1, 2007 10:00 PM, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all -
OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash with them and dig into them. Gottit. It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that? I'm thinking there must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze. Does anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC licenses, the GFDL, etc?
Philippe
Yes! I'd love to have such a thing myself.
I found this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing -- which only covers software licensing but is a nice ideological overview
and this: http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdr/research/lliang/open_content_guide which does have a comparison chart, but is perhaps out of date.
we do have a free software license comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences but not one for free content licenses that I could turn up.
At any rate, above and beyond our current debate, it'd be lovely to have a short compare-and-contrast reference that could be printed up into a few pages, especially for talking to people who are new and not ideologically invested, have something to license, and just want to know what the possibilities are and what open licenses can do for them. I imagine someone must have written up such a thing... (that is one thing I admire about Creative Commons -- from the end user's perspective they explain themselves well and make it easy to understand what you're getting into).
-- phoebe
I found this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/FOSS_Licensing -- which only covers software licensing but is a nice ideological overview
This book is actually a wonderful example, because it was donated to Wikibooks by the UN, and was explicitly released under a cross-licensing arrangement GFDL+CC-BY-SA-2.5. It's books like this that are such an important reason why we harmonize licenses, and why we get it all figured out soon.
--Andrew Whitworth
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
OK, I accept that I need to get copies of the various licenses and crash with them and dig into them. Gottit. It's on my "to-do" list for next week.
Is there a good common reference that I can use in addition to that? I'm thinking there must be someone who's already done this and has harnessed the (substantial) knowledge of this list and others to put them into a format that doesn't make my eyes glaze. Does anyone have a reference that gives overviews of the various differences b/w the CC licenses, the GFDL, etc?
Please excuse my cynicism on this. :-)
It's a bit like expecting the copyright fairy to overfly Washington and sprinkle commonsense fairy dust. Those guys would be more likely to scramble the jets first.
Ec
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