[scribus-dev] online docs

[Craig]

Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 09/08/2009 06:37 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
>>   
>>> Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 11:47:06 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
>>>     
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, a.l.e wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> afaik, due to the license choosen, it's not possible to include the
>>>>> scribus official doc in debian and in other radical free
>>>>> distributions...
>>>>> i would be happy if somebody can prove me wrong on this.
>>>>>          
>>>> Was the matter actually raised by Debian team?
>>>>        
>>> Yes, because the documentation is under the FDL, which is considered
>>> non-free
>>> by Debian.
>>>      
>> Well, I'm personally fine with any free license that allows free
>> redistribution, modification and translation. I think I'll prepare a
>> patch for intro tutorial and layers chapter anyway and just in case
>> you have my "yes" to relicense subsmission to anything like CC.
>>    
> All of these can be relatively moot issues. For example, Christoph
> suggested inclusion of the Working with... series. This would require a
> serious rewrite to the extent that I don't think that one could
> seriously argue any copyright issue.
> 
> While I might object to someone taking my wiki articles and compiling
> them in some book of theirs (and my objection could be easily assuaged
> by them making a monetary contribution to the Scribus project), one can
> easily reword some information and make it a unique work. One of the
> background issues I feel strongly about when I named my website
> infoisfree.com is that you cannot (or should not be able to) copyright
> information, data, and knowledge. These will find a way to escape from
> your grasp.
> 
> We mainly have to have a copyright license that allows any distro some
> measure of comfort.
> 
> Greg


I think it would be an incredible shame if the book's content was
reproduced in a distro. The aim was to write a book.. you know.. dead
tree.. pay money for it kind of thing.

Craig