Is Bazaar's document distributed under GPL?
Wichmann, Mats D
mats.d.wichmann at intel.com
Mon Sep 21 15:56:19 BST 2009
Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> Would we want CC-BY rather than CC-BY-SA? The only case advanced
>> so far is "so people can make non-free derivatives, specifically
>> training manuals." Having people make site-specific training is
>> important and worthwhile.
>
> This is not a problem, as you point out. The problem occurs when a
> third party wants to make proprietary training materials that can be
> used in a consulting context. Whether that's a concern or not is up
> to you.
Proprietary training materials should not be cutting straight from
GPL'd code/docs. That's not different than writing code. I don't
think anything needs to be done to accomodate that.
[I was once contracted to write a proprietary training course on
Python, and although the Python license is not GPL, I still wouldn't
have considered using code from the distribution, including docs.
Besides, none of it was written in the "voice" I would have used anyway.]
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