[scribus] the docs license

ale rimoldi ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Wed Apr 11 14:35:15 UTC 2012


On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:18:58 +0200
Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > ... because there is a long history of people taking free scribus
> > resources and making profit out of it....
> > 
> > let's get real: there is almost no chance that somebody can make a
> > huge profit from taking the manual, printing it and selling it.
> > 
> > if somebody would dare to do it, i guess that the scribus project
> > as a whole would most profit from it.
> > 
> > ciao
> > a.l.e
> > 
> 
> This is your chance Ale... go ahead and spend months writing docs
> anew and make a Scribus Docs package available as a 3rd party add-on.

i'm not a good writer... but i'm collecting notes to eventually
produce such a documentation in the future.


> Given the history with various commercial companies regularly
> checking out our SVN (CVS at the time), others offering to sue us,
> others offering to buy us, others selling Scribus in a boxed
> package.. I think we are perfectly in our right to distribute how we
> like.

you're free to choose the licenses you prefer.

thanks for caring
a.l.e



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