Re: Licences

So, to put it simply, the current plan is to make a non-free derivate
work from free contributed work.

Anton said that people can actually contribute to the 'compilation'
part by refactoring the Wiki pages. So in fact, the Schematics Editors
Group do not have the right on the compilation, and has no mean to
'reserve' it; the Group rather wants people to grant it an exclusive
right to make a non-free work out of theirs.

So to sum up, you are telling the potential contributor: "You can put
copylefted free material here, but also grant us the right to make a
non-free derivate work from it, and you won't get any royalty from
it". That's something not very easy to hear.


Also, Anton said people could anyway print the book from the
website. As far as I understand, the book will be different from the
website, since it will be the 'value-added' non-free derivate of
it. Moreover, if you manage to get the exclusive copyright on the
compilation, ie the arrangement of the section, then printing the
website in the logical order will be a violation. All this show a
proprietary logic that made me "feel a bit sad that the final book may
be non-free for the end-user".


Ok, I admit this has a part of nitpicking, since most of the material
is free. But I find it really disappointing that the result of the
work will be 'almost free' and somewhat impractical, just because it
is assumed that publishers absolutely need a part of the work to be
proprietary so as to feel safe. IMHO I doubt a publisher will feel
safer when owning a proprietary part of a book whose contents are
almost all freely available, and thus can be 'rebuilt' within few
days. Going free to the end seems to me clearer and more convenient
for contributors and people buying the book, and would change few for
the publisher.

-- 
Sylvain


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