Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Andreas Röhler
On 12.08.2016 06:48, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:42:39 AM UTC+12, Reto Brunner wrote: What on earth isn't "free" enough about You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format No you are not. A court has ruled

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Paul Rubin
Charles Ross writes: > Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. That means you can post it on wikibooks.org and let people edit it directly, if you want. Wikibooks is nowhere near as crazy as wikipedia. -- https://mail.python.org/mail

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 1:09:31 PM UTC+12, Charles Ross wrote: > Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative > Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. Great. :) That’s the one to use if you are worried about companies who want something for nothing coming in and ripping

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-11 Thread Lawrence D’Oliveiro
On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 at 3:42:39 AM UTC+12, Reto Brunner wrote: > What on earth isn't "free" enough about > > You are free to: > Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format No you are not. A court has ruled

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
Well, I’ve been convinced. The license for the book is now Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike. https://github.com/chivalry/meta-python/blob/master/LICENSE.md Thanks, Chuck > On Aug 9, 2016, at 3:00 PM, Charles Ross wrote: > >> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech) content.

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
> CC-BY-NC-SA is not a license for free (as in speech) content. Is that > what you want? I really appreciate all the conversation about the license. Perhaps I made a mistake with requiring noncommercial in the license, I don’t know, but I’ll look at the links provided about free documentation an

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Lutz Horn
Regarding the CC-BY-NC-SA license: Am 09.08.16 um 17:42 schrieb Reto Brunner: > What on earth isn't "free" enough about [...] > It is even a viral (copy left) licence, so even a fsf member should > be happy The FSF considers the CC-BY-NC to *not* be a license for free documentation[1]: > This l

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Jussi Piitulainen
Reto Brunner writes: > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016, 16:59 Lutz Horn 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

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Reto Brunner wrote: > 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 a

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Michael Selik
On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:23 AM Charles Ross wrote: > I’ve begun a new book called Meta Python that I’m looking for assistance > with. The book is one I wish was out there, and so am writing. The book is > targeted at experienced programmers who are novice Python users and want to > move from that

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Reto Brunner
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) lic

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Lutz Horn
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? Lutz -- https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Charles Ross
You’re right. I should have mentioned that this is a volunteer effort on my part and anyone else who becomes involved. It’s being released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Re: Call for Assistance

2016-08-09 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tuesday 09 August 2016 11:52, Charles Ross wrote: > I’ve begun a new book called Meta Python that I’m looking for assistance > with. Are you looking for people to be co-authors? Are you offering payment, or credit? A free copy of the book? A kick to the head? Or just looking for volunteers t