Reto Brunner <brunn...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016, 16:59 Lutz Horn <lutz.h...@posteo.de> wrote: > >> Am 08/09/2016 um 03:52 AM schrieb Charles Ross: >> > The book is being hosted at https://github.com/chivalry/meta-python >> >> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech) content. Is that >> what you want? > > What on earth isn't "free" enough about > > You are free to: > Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format > > Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material > > The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the > license terms. > > It is even a viral (copy left) licence, so even a fsf member should be > happy
The FSF does not consider non-commercial licenses free. Check their entries on licensing and philosophy at http://www.fsf.org/. Licensing / Licenses -> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses (ends up at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html, contains an entry on CC-NC at https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CC-BY-NC) Philosophy / The Free Software Definition -> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Philosophy / Selling Free Software -> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html If Charles Ross gets significant contributions from others under the NC license, I think even he would be unable to sell copies or use the book in paid courses, unless he gets other contributors to assign their copyrights to him so that he is not bound by the license himself. Is that what he wants? Is that what other contributors want? Why? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
