Hi all,
I have just wandered trough some text of mine in order to detect what probably could be postetd into the wikipedia project. Some text might be of interest to other people. It belongs to a work which I began and gave up for some other reason but I am not not sure if I will continue on that later on.
Question: Is there a way to spend excerpts from it to GNU and at the same time hold open a way to use the original text in classic copyrighted sense. Larry, do you still have a version (or the original version) of Larrys Text with your own copyright, so that if you ever depart from the project could publish as a book without interfering GNU rights? This might be of interest to other text spenders.
mit freundlichen Gruessen Stefan
StefanRybo in Wikipedia apologies for any language errors (please correct)
Larry, do you still have a version (or the original version) of Larrys
Text
with your own copyright, so that if you ever depart from the project could publish as a book without interfering GNU rights? This might be of interest to other text spenders.
Hi Stefan,
Since I've posted the original text (which has since been modified) on Wikipedia, I no longer own the rights to the text. It is now released under the GNU FDL. Personally, I don't care much about what anyone does with it, though I would be a bit miffed if someone started making a bunch of money from it. I'd be mad at myself, though, not at the profiteer. :-)
Larry
Larry Sanger wrote:
Since I've posted the original text (which has since been modified) on Wikipedia, I no longer own the rights to the text. It is now released under the GNU FDL.
As a technical point, it is very much possible to both "own the rights" *and* release something under the GNU FDL.
Many authors of software, for example, donate their copyright to the Free Software Foundation. The GNU license is (presumably) as legally enforceable as Microsoft's license.
To license something, under more or less restrictive terms, is not the same as to give up ownership.
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