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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