[cc-community] Promoting a CC book, Thicker Than Blood

drew Roberts zotz at 100jamz.com
Sat Jun 10 16:32:14 EDT 2006


On Saturday 10 June 2006 03:32 pm, M.A.Newhall wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, drew Roberts wrote:
> > but no indication of a CC license at all. Which CC license is the book
> > under?
>
>          I decided to put that on a separate page on the website under
> the "license" link in the lower right hand corner.  The URL to the
> Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License is also in the beginning of
> the pdf file.

Now I see it. I don't like what I see, but that is a different issue. (I like 
to see BY-SA and BY licenses in that order btw. Stems from liking to see GPL 
and BSD licenses in that same order - ignoring lgpl and MIT, etc.)

As for places... ourmedia.org is one place. Then there is lulu, but someone 
already mentioned that.
>
>          People were getting confused by all the links, text and
> instructions on the site, so when I simplified the site, I put it on a
> separate page.
>
>          Do you think that effects the legal status?  99% of the open
> source stuff doesn't discuss license until after you download and open the
> package.

Well, not on freshmeat and sourceforge. I check licenses before downloading 
and trying stuff out. I want Free Software.
>
>  	Also what about just including the URL instead of the full text of
> the license?  A lot of people tell me they won't read a book unless they
> can print it, so I was trying to save a tree.  But is the license it still
> binding then?
>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>---
> >
> > Hey, a fellow LUG person. I am with the bslug - bslug.org (Bahamas Linux
> > Users Group) but our site is down this last week. (I think someone may
> > have forgotten to pay the hoster.)
> >
> > Where on Long Island do you meet? (I have friends and family up that
> > way.)
>

Family is/was Dix Hills and friends in No. Bellmore if the address book is 
correct.

> We meet at SUNY Farmingdale in Farmingdale NY (on Route 110.)  We have
> been around for about 8 years.  It's pretty big these days.  About 50
> people a meeting and over 300 on the mailing list.

What sorts of things do you all do?
>
> > all the best,
> >
> > drew
>
> Thank you.
>
> Matt
>
all the best,

drew
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