[scribus] Copyright -- Free to copy license

Sharon Foster sfoster at cheshirelibrary.org
Mon Aug 11 19:55:06 CEST 2008


I have always understood the GPL requirement to mean that a link back to 
the GPL page (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) is sufficient, along 
with a logo and/or a sentence or two.

Murray Strome wrote:
> If I produce a document, I would like the copyright to be such that people are free to copy and modify it, but to retain the credit for my part of the work. Initially, I thought that the GNU Free Documentation License (GFPL) would be a good choice. However, one condition makes it completely impractical, namely that you must : "...include a copy of the License in the document" and that it must be a verbatim copy.
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> This is completely impractical for short documents, and even for a 300 page book, I would not want to have to put in several pages, just for the sake of including a copy of the GFPL.
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> Does anyone know of a License that accomplishes essentially the same thing as the GFPL, but without such an onerous condition attached?  Just imagine producing a one page document to be licensed under GFPL, where even reformatted in tiny print, it would take three pages!
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> Thanks for suggestions.
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> Murray
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