[Textbook-l] wikiversity licensing

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 26 15:51:27 UTC 2003


--- Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> wrote: 
> Yes, but there's a solution to that, at least I
> think so.
> 
> Anything released under FDL 1.x or 2.0 with no
> invariant sections, no
> Front-Cover texts, and no Back-Cover texts can be
> distributed under
> the terms of LFDL 2.0 *or* FDL 2.0.  Anything
> release under FDL 1.x
> with invariant sections can be released under FDL
> 2.0.
> 
> And then LFDL can be simpler and worded carefully so
> as to maximize
> compatibility with CC SA.
> 
> A similar change would need to be made to CC SA 2.0,
> so that it would
> allow for relicensing under LFDL.
> 
> --Jimbo

Sorry that this is so late, I've been on vacation.

Does the CC SA have provisions for transparent
coppies? I think that that's a major difference in
some people's minds (in the case of ebooks, etc).
LDan

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