[BoW] license

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:19:49 -0700
Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:

> Attila Kinali wrote:
> > Moin,
> > 
> > We have to decide on a license under which we want to
> > publish BoW. From a short websearch i'd that only three
> > licenses that are around are usefull enough for us to be
> > used:
> > 
> > 1) CreativeCommons by-sa [1]
> > 2) CreativeCommons by-nc-sa [2] with an execption that
> >    allows us to sell hardcopies
> > 3) Design Science License [3]
> > 
> > 1) and 2) are widely used licenses, while 3) looks like
> > a GPL addaption for non-software works.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on this or other licenses that might be
> > worth to look at?
> 
> First impulse is GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). I assume you 
> have a reason for disqualifying that in the first round?

Yes, too complicated and too restrictive. IMHO even
the CC by-sa is too complicated. A simple "you may do this
and that, all other rights are reserved" would suffice in
my opinion, but it would be another license on the landscape.

			Attila Kinali

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