[freeroleplay] Re: Descriptive vs. Proscriptive, frpgc.org vs. freeroleplay.org

  • From: Mark Havenner <laveaux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <freeroleplay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:36:11 -0600

I haven't even seen the BSD yet ... Hah!

I'll be sure to research that as well.


On 8/1/05 3:24 PM, "Samuel Penn" <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 01 August 2005 21:51, Mark Havenner wrote:
>> Most importantly, if I were to comply it would mean dual licensing and
>> after careful consideration I cannot, in good conscious, make it possible
>> for any part of these projects to at one point (downstream) be incompatible
>> with any other part of my projects. If CC, down the road, makes a FDL
>> provision I will likely dual license at that point because I can freely use
>> materials in both licenses. I also don't want to confuse an already
>> confusing concept (such as Basilicus).
> 
> This is the ridiculous part of 'Free' licenses - it can sometimes
> be impossible to use work from someone else because even though both
> of you are using 'Free' licenses, they are both incompatible.
> 
> This is one reason I've decided to BSD license material which I feel
> can be of use to others - people can take the content and mix it in
> with GPL/FDL/CC or even closed material (at least, that's my
> understanding).
> 
> My equipment lists for example will be available under a BSD
> documentation license.
> 
> http://www.glendale.org.uk/bsd.txt
> 
> For my 2p worth, I'm reasonably happy with the CC. I went for the
> GPL in the end to simplify mixing content with software (most of
> my content starts life as XML, so such a mix is a real issue).

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Mark Havenner
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