OSL 2.1 for textbooks

[Bruce Perens]

I think all 15 books in my series with Prentice Hall are under the Open
Publication license. It seems to have worked well for us so far. I have
not gone to Creative Commons licensing mostly because the series has
Open Source as its theme and I don't want people to be confused that
Creative Commons licenses are all Open Source. A few of them are.

I think the worst part of the GNU FDL is the anti-DRM provision. This
although I disapprove of DRM as much as anyone. The license provision is
so vague that putting a GNU FDL licensed file on a system with login
security could violate it.

Thanks

Bruce

Wilson, Andrew wrote:

>Another license specifically intended for documents is the Open
>Publication License:
>http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/  Although opencontent.org itself
>appears to be
>defunct, their license should at least give you food for thought.
>  
>