Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-06 Thread Aaron Laws
On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Ted Creedon wrote: > Submit to the previous authors. > > Consensus. > Ah yes, I think if you were able to get ahold of every author of the work, they could collectively decide to license it under different terms. I wouldn't inspire hope in that direction. ___

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-06 Thread Ted Creedon
Submit to the previous authors. Consensus. From: Aaron Laws Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 6:02:36 AM To: Ted Creedon Cc: John Ralls; stepbystepf...@mtdata.com; gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-06 Thread Aaron Laws
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: > best thing to do is to prototype a sample & submit for approval. > > Submit to whom for approval? By what authority can anyone approve anything that might be submitted? If you said "submit for comments", I would not object.

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-05 Thread Ted Creedon
tepf...@mtdata.com Cc: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Subject: Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide Look at Broderbund. If a derived work has the same "look & feel" as gnucash, its is infringing. trfc

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-05 Thread Ted Creedon
rg Subject: Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide On 7/4/2016 9:54 AM, John Ralls wrote: > Read the original letter again. He's asking about copying parts of the > Tutorial and Concepts Guide, which is published under the GNU Free > Do

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/4/2016 9:54 AM, John Ralls wrote: Read the original letter again. He's asking about copying parts of the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, which is published under the GNU Free Documentation License, or GFDL. That's separate from the program's copyrights and licenses. Regards, John Ralls . Y

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-04 Thread Aaron Laws
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Fabio Benevenuti wrote: > Dear GnuCash developers, > > Pleae let me know if there is a main “GnuCash Documentation Team” > coordinator or legal advisor to which I should address this question. > > Thanks in advance, > > Fabio Benevenuti > We're unable to give perm

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-04 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 4, 2016, at 5:42 AM, Mike or Penny Novack wrote: > > On 7/3/2016 6:05 PM, Chris Lyttle wrote: >> I agree with John, as long as it keeps with the requirements of the GFDL, >> which means the work is available under the same license, I have no >> objection. > Uh, I am not one of the dev

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-04 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 7/3/2016 6:05 PM, Chris Lyttle wrote: I agree with John, as long as it keeps with the requirements of the GFDL, which means the work is available under the same license, I have no objection. Uh, I am not one of the developers but am old enough to have been able to follow the original "free s

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-03 Thread Chris Lyttle
I agree with John, as long as it keeps with the requirements of the GFDL, which means the work is available under the same license, I have no objection. --  Chris Lyttle Sent with Airmail On July 3, 2016 at 3:19:09 PM, Linas Vepstas (linasveps...@gmail.com) wrote: The mailing list is the right

Re: Authorization for commercial derivative work of GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide

2016-07-03 Thread Linas Vepstas
The mailing list is the right place to make this contact. I (personally) have no problems with this, but the other developers should also think about this and reach some agreement. --linas On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Fabio Benevenuti wrote: > Dear GnuCash developers, > > Pleae let me know