Re: GFDL licensed books better for Wikibooks or Wikisource? (or nowhere?)

"Andrew Whitworth" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.textbook
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Brianna Laugher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I just discovered <http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ehlw/index.html> How
> Language Works (edition 3.0) by Michael Gasser. It's GFDL.
>
> I guess if it was at Wikisource it would be in a more archivey way,
> whereas at Wikibooks you would hope people would continue to develop
> it... is that about right?

That's the difference as I understand it, although I don't believe
that WS allows self-published books. That is, I think WS is more about
archiving important texts, not about accumulating just any free text
that that people write.

We probably all could use some clarification on the issue.

--Andrew Whitworth
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