RE: Licences

Brent Fulgham <bfulg-yBeKhBN/[email protected]> Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:45:10 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.schematics
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Anton van Straaten <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > I am following your conversation, and I feel a bit
> > sad that the final book may be non-free for the 
> > end-user (ie the buyer of the book). I find it is 
> > not a good incentive when you are not sure
> > that the book will be 100% free-as-in-freedom.
> 
> I share this concern, but we want to balance it
> against what may be necessary to get a printed book 
> into as wide a distribution as possible,
> including through commercial channels.

I think it's important to note that none of the
original Wiki authors wrote the recipes with the
intent of making money.  The sole concern with
preventing duplication is to make the possibility of
producing a printed volume possible.

-Brent


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