RE: Licencing, again

MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-08-26 10:39:45 +0100 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Ok, on further reflection I am back to the initial position
> > of reserving the compilation copyright.
>
> Can you do that without copyright assignments from the contributors?

The assignment will be on the registration page - by signing up,
contributors will agree to two different points: (1) that individual
contributions are licensed under LGPL; and (2) that rights to any
compilation based on the classification information are assigned to the
SchematicsEditorsGroup.

> > This seems fairly
> > minor but at least gives the publisher some protection. [...]
>
> Fairly minor, but makes the cookbook useless for debian, doesn't it?
> :-/

Just like the Python cookbook.  On the plus side, I can't easily imagine a
situation in which you'd type "apt-get install foo" and have it come back
and say that it can't do it because foo depends on the Schematics Cookbook.
Unless foo is an artificially intelligent Scheme programmer. :-)

BTW, I think that if any actual code library arises from the Cookbook, i.e.
one which can usefully be used in PLT simply by using "require" for the
appropriate module, then we should make that library LGPL in its entirety.
That will allow the library to be included in free software collections.

Anton



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