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trans-coord/gnun/licenses license-list.html
From: |
Yavor Doganov |
Subject: |
trans-coord/gnun/licenses license-list.html |
Date: |
Fri, 23 May 2008 20:11:33 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /sources/trans-coord
Module name: trans-coord
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 08/05/23 20:11:33
Modified files:
gnun/licenses : license-list.html
Log message:
Automatic sync from the master www repository.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/trans-coord/gnun/licenses/license-list.html?cvsroot=trans-coord&r1=1.4&r2=1.5
Patches:
Index: license-list.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/trans-coord/trans-coord/gnun/licenses/license-list.html,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -b -r1.4 -r1.5
--- license-list.html 7 May 2008 20:10:47 -0000 1.4
+++ license-list.html 23 May 2008 20:11:32 -0000 1.5
@@ -1104,12 +1104,6 @@
license change in 2003 made Plan 9 free software</a>.</p></dd>
-<dt>License of Qmail</dt>
-<dd>
-<p>The license of Qmail is not a free software license because it mostly
-prohibits the distribution of modified versions.</p></dd>
-
-
<dt><a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/rpl.php">
Reciprocal Public License</a></dt>
<dd>
@@ -1324,8 +1318,8 @@
<hr />
-<h3><a id="OtherLicenses">Licenses for Works Besides Software and
- Documentation</a></h3>
+<h3><a id="OtherLicenses">Licenses for Works of Practical Use Besides
+ Software and Documentation</a></h3>
<dl>
@@ -1358,14 +1352,14 @@
software or documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL
and with the GNU FDL.</p>
-<p>Creative Commons publishes many licenses which are very different.
-Therefore, to say that a work “uses a Creative Commons
-license” is to leave the principal questions about the work's
-licensing unanswered. When you see such a statement in a work, please
-ask the author to highlight the substance of the license choices. And
-if someone proposes to “use a Creative Commons license”
-for a certain work, it is vital to ask immediately, “Which
-one?”</p>
+<p><a name="which-cc">Creative Commons publishes many licenses which
+are very different. Therefore, to say that a work “uses a
+Creative Commons license” is to leave the principal questions
+about the work's licensing unanswered. When you see such a statement
+in a work, please ask the author to highlight the substance of the
+license choices. And if someone proposes to “use a Creative
+Commons license” for a certain work, it is vital to ask
+immediately, “Which one?”</p>
</dd>
<dt><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode">
@@ -1375,8 +1369,8 @@
entertainment works, and educational works. Please don't use it for
software or documentation, since it is incompatible with the GNU GPL
and with the GNU FDL.</p>
-<p>Please see additional comments about Creative Commons licenses
-just above.</p></dd>
+<p>Please <a href="#which-cc">be specific about which Creative
+ Commons license is being used</a>.</p></dd>
<dt><a href="/licenses/dsl.html">
@@ -1442,7 +1436,43 @@
</dl>
+<h3><a id="OpinionLicenses">Licenses for Works of Opinion and Judgment</a></h3>
+<p>Works that express someone's opinionâmemoirs, editorials, and so
+onâserve a fundamentally different purpose than works for practical
+use like software and documentation. Because of this, we expect them
+to provide recipients with a different set of permissions: the
+permission to copy and distribute the work verbatim, for both
+commercial and noncommercial purposes.
+<a href="/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html" title="Richard
+Stallman discusses what rights the public should have for works of
+opinion">Richard Stallman discusses this</a> frequently in his
+speeches.</p>
+
+<p>Because so many licenses meet these criteria, we cannot list them
+all. If you are looking for one to use yourself, however, there are
+two that we recommend:</p>
+
+<dl>
+
+<dt><a href="/licenses/licenses.html#VerbatimCopying">GNU Verbatim
+ Copying License</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This is the license used throughout the GNU and FSF web sites.
+ It is very simple, and especially well-suited to written
+ works.</p></dd>
+
+<dt><a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/legalcode">Creative
+ Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 license
+ (a.k.a. CC-BY-ND)</a></dt>
+
+<dd><p>This license provides much the same permissions as our verbatim
+ copying license, but it's much more detailed. We particularly
+ recommend it for audio and/or video works of opinion.
+ Please <a href="#which-cc">be specific about which Creative
+ Commons license is being used</a>.</p></dd>
+
+</dl>
<hr />
<h4><a href="/licenses/licenses.html">More about licenses</a></h4>
@@ -1478,7 +1508,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
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- $Date: 2008/05/07 20:10:47 $
+ $Date: 2008/05/23 20:11:32 $
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</p>
</div>