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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net> on 2004/05/18 21:24:05 UTC

Re: svn commit: r9766 - trunk/doc/book/book

sussman@tigris.org wrote:
> Author: sussman
> Date: Tue May 18 15:36:28 2004
> New Revision: 9766
> 
> Modified:
>    trunk/doc/book/book/book.xml
>    trunk/doc/book/book/ch00.xml
>    trunk/doc/book/book/copyright.xml
> Log:
> Put book under a free documentation license.
> 
> * doc/book/book/copyright.xml: switch book's license to Creative
>   Commons "Attribution-ShareAlike" license.  (The previous
>   apache-esque license was specific to software, and made little sense.)

Umm, is there some specific reason that the book is now under a more 
restrictive license (specifically a 'viral' license) than the rest of 
the code?

-garrett

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Re: svn commit: r9766 - trunk/doc/book/book

Posted by "Brian W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@red-bean.com>.
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 16:24, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> sussman@tigris.org wrote:
> > Author: sussman
> > Date: Tue May 18 15:36:28 2004
> > New Revision: 9766
> > 
> > Modified:
> >    trunk/doc/book/book/book.xml
> >    trunk/doc/book/book/ch00.xml
> >    trunk/doc/book/book/copyright.xml
> > Log:
> > Put book under a free documentation license.
> > 
> > * doc/book/book/copyright.xml: switch book's license to Creative
> >   Commons "Attribution-ShareAlike" license.  (The previous
> >   apache-esque license was specific to software, and made little sense.)
> 
> Umm, is there some specific reason that the book is now under a more 
> restrictive license (specifically a 'viral' license) than the rest of 
> the code?

Urgh... there was some miscommunication amongst us.  Ben is in the
process of changing it to the Creative Commons "Attribution" license.

Thanks,

-Fitz


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