[Eg-oversight-board] Doc Licensing incompatibilities with FLOSS Manuals (was Re: Oversight Board meeting - Wednesday 10/17, 12:00-13:00 EDT)

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> I've also started asking around directly -- Dan's making a very
> reasonable assumption that the involvement of the FLOSS Manuals
> project implies that the GPL would be the default license, but the Doc
> Sprint's information page and registration form is completely silent
> on licensing matters.

So here's what I found out: first, if you register an account at
flossmanuals.net and choose to create a new manual, you're given a
choice of three licenses: CC0, CC-BY-SA 3.0, and GPL.  Secondly, I did
some chatting on #flossmanuals -- Adam Hyde wasn't online, but Elisa
de Castro Guerra, who manages the French side, indicated that a lot of
sprints were dual-licensed.  The upshot so far is that I don't think
there would be any problem if the resulting book were CC-BY-SA (if we
get accepted).  Also, Elisa mentioned that the OpenStreetMap book
written during last year's sprint was subsequently translated into
French, so we may be able to draw on some help with a French
translation.

Regards,

Galen
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