[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Finney wrote: >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for >>> personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and >>> propagate it. You're quite right to point it out. >> Then please revise the false statement that the publication is "free >> as in beer and freedom", or make it true by releasing the documents >> under a license that does grant conventional free-software freedoms. >> >> -- >> \ "They can not take away our self respect if we do not give it | >> `\ to them." -- Mahatma Gandhi | >> _o__) | >> Ben Finney > > I thought I just had. In what way does the statement "Yes, it's true > that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for personal profits, > but you may derive from it, reproduce and propagate it" not provide > such a revision and clarification? Seriously, let me know what exact > statement you feel needs to be made, and I will endorse it accordingly > if it is accurate.
The phrase "free as in freedom" is commonly understood differently from the way you are using it. Free as in freedom usually grants the right to distribute for a fee. Many Linux distributors depend on that right; otherwise they wouldn't have the right to sell CDs. IMHO your licensing terms are fine; you don't need to switch from the CC license. Just avoid the term "free as in freedom", since the Free Software Foundation has assigned that phrase a very specific meaning. Shane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
