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Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian

From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <nospam AT codegnome.org>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:35:07 -0800

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:07:32PM -0500, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> I am the lead of the OpenOffice.org user guide. Right now we use Sun's
> Public Documentation License, but I want to move to the CC-BY. The PDL
> is inconvenient, complicated, and it's a bit of a "walled garden".

What about the GNU FDL? It was designed for software manuals, especially
software manuals for free software. Is there some reason you'd prefer
the CC licenses over the FDL?

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Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/09/2005
- Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Todd A. Jacobs, 03/10/2005
  - Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/10/2005
    - Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Branko Collin, 03/11/2005
      - Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/11/2005
        
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Branko Collin, 03/11/2005
        
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/11/2005
        
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Todd A. Jacobs, 03/11/2005
        
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/11/2005
        
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Greg London, 03/11/2005
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Daniel Carrera, 03/11/2005
        Re: Concerns: CC-BY and Debian, Greg London, 03/11/2005