A new license for documentation
Malcolm Bain
mbain at menta.net
Mon Nov 15 12:37:24 UTC 2004
Michał Nazarewicz wrote:
>I want the license to:
> A. be OSD compatible,
> B. force derived works to be distributed under the same license (2.1.c),
> C. allow combining with other documents (3.2).
>And I'm still thinking whether the license should:
> D. allow using parts of the document in a open source software,
> D.1. but not for not open source software (wouldn't that be against
> OSD 6?),
> E. force the modified version to have different title,
> F. force keeping the no-warranty clauses (including it was suggestes by
> the FSF).
>
Hope this is not too obvious, but it sounds like you are looking for
something like the CreativeCommons Attribution-ShareAlike license (with
maybe NoCommercial - making it non OSD compatible as far as I understand).
See at www.creativecommons.org
Malcolm
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