On Mar 19, 2010, at 9:20 AM, bb wrote:
David Joyner schrieb:
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:53 PM, bb <bblo...@arcor.de> wrote:
If I try to write a math-tutorial ...
Sage code and its documentation are licensed under open-source
licenses, so feel free to copy+paste. In fact, it is encouraged.
Just please license your documentation under the same
open source license.
Further license information:
* Documentation: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
* Sage code: Type license() at the Sage command line.
Thank you for your answer,
to my regret the copy paste option and creativecommons.org/licenses/
by-sa/3.0/ does not help. The simple reason is it would not enjoy
readers of a german text to find an english installation manual.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ is compatible with Debian
Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), it is allowed "to Remix — to adapt
the work".
The problem is, that a translation is not just a remix but an act of
creative originality and therefore with an own copyright. So I (and
may be others) need a (written) permission to translate the
installation manual. Better for sage to "spread the world" would be
a general allowance to translate the installation manual.
CC gives you the right, among other things, to translate as long as
you release under a compatible license. You then are a joint copyright
holder of the translated work (which I would consider to be an
adaption, though one that requires significant creative input).
I am only speaking of the installation manual! Because, as I pointed
out in another mail, such a description of installation steps do
have a degree of (creative) freedom close to zero!
If it's a list of steps, I could totally see that falling under "fair
use."
- Robert
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