Re: [native-lang] IRC Talk starts now!!

Andre Schnabel wrote:

> So .. speaking for the project (the project you are contributing to) 
> your documetation is not reusable.

Wouldn't it have been easier to say that at the beginning instead of 
just repeating "it's not our preferred license"?

Please give me a few days to think about this then. When we chose the 
license we were not thinking of borrowing existing documentation because 
there wasn't much we could borrow anyways. We /were/ thinking about 
other people reusing our work. And we picked a license that we felt 
accomplished that. Please please please read the "authors-license.odt" 
file so you can see our reasoning.

> Daniel .. sorry for missunderstanding. It is not about *you* as a part 
> of the community. I know what you are doing for and within the community.

Thank you.

> It's very simple: use PDL, so that content can be exchanged.

No, it's not that simple. The PDL prevets content from being reused in 
the largest pools of existing content (GPL and Creative Commons) it 
prevents distribution by Debian (the largest Linux distro), it requires 
a lot of heavy work which made it hard for us to write and review 
chapters at the speed we wanted (if each chapter gets reviewed 6 times 
and we have 88 chapters so far, that's a lot of tracking to do) and we 
were worried that we might not be using the license correctly (how 
detailed should be tracking be?).

This doesn't mean I'm not open to suggestions. But it does mean that 
it's not as simple as you're making it out to be. It took us more than a 
month to decide on the current license and I can't just change that 
overnight as if it was turning the light switch.a

> I have read authors-license.odt and stille wonder why it was not the 
> main intention to comply with existing (and future) documents that are 
> developed at the OOo project.

Because there weren't many documents in that category, and there were 
many documents in the others. Using the same thing other documents use 
is a desirable goal, but not the only one. For example, if the choice of 
license prevents redistribution by important channels and causes so much 
extra work as to halt the project, those are important considerations 
too. It's not an easy decision. As I said earlier, I'll consider what 
you said and look for options. Please be a little patient.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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