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An Introduction to Various Math Topics
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The book needs a license #5

Open jesyspa opened 9 years ago

jesyspa commented 9 years ago

To be honest, I don't know what would be a good choice. I think the FDL has shown itself to be rather impractical. Perhaps some form of CC?

wei2912 commented 9 years ago

CC0 Universal is my personal favourite, since we don't need to care about anything.

ghost commented 9 years ago

I'd like whatever we choose to be short enough to fit on a page or two.

jesyspa commented 9 years ago

Having looked at CC licenses, it looks like they're a good fit unless we want to protect the source form of the book particularly strongly (i.e. copyleft). I don't think this is that big a deal; I suspect any text modifications will be a bigger deal than how to express it in LaTeX. Therefore, I suggest licensing the book under CC-SA. The code can be put under MIT or something like that.

ghost commented 9 years ago

It makes tons of sense to have a different license for the code than the license.

ghost commented 9 years ago

I didn't comment on the CC-SA. I like it. It's to the point. Further, a cursory search makes me think we can apply the creative commons license fairly easily, and without needing to incorporate the full text of the license:

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_apply_a_Creative_Commons_license_to_my_material.3F

I think it'd make it possible to have a 'license' page that looks similar to what @jesyspa has already linked (as opposed to the whole license)

wei2912 commented 9 years ago

CC-SA is perfectly fine with me. :)