[gtk-book] Re: Welcome to GtkBook Project
- From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gtk-book@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:15:20 -0700
GTK Book list:
+ To discuss & manage the work-flow of writing 'A journey through GTK+'
+ To help new authors & project maintainers, keep the book upto-date.
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:50:01 +0530, Muthiah Annamalai <ec10130@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Read the 'AIMS','license','README' files, and terms on 'LICENSE'.
> We want the book to be freely read, modifiable and distributeable.
> So like our friend Elijah, said we ought to keep code in public domain,
or BSD or similar license that allows most any use...
> and the text under GFDL, CreativeCommons, Opencontent etc like licenses.
You should probably pick one.
> 5.Deliver it!
> Post the 'chapter' + 'code' + 'images' as a tarball to me
> <dearestchum[-aT-]yahoo.co.in>, and attach your license you want the
> chapters & code to be distributed.
Not all licenses you listed before are compatible. If you allow each
contributor to pick a license, then it may be illegal for you to put
them together into a single book. I'm not certain on how it works
out, but it would be far cleaner if you picked the license and then
told everyone what their contributions needed to be under in order to
be part of the project.
> The [Plan-of-Action] is this:
>
> 1.
> We will attempt to write all 15 chapters + 5 appendices within May, 2005.
That's a very ambitious plan. Cool.
> Use GNU/Linux.
Is there a specific reason to exclude other unix platforms? I can see
the reason to exclude Windows, that's fine. But I don't understand
why you specifically want or need to exclude the BSDs, Solaris, HP/UX,
AIX, etc. since Gnome should run on all those platforms.
Just my $0.02,
Elijah
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