From: Marek Kubica <marek@xivilization.net>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml reference manual non-free license
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 21:55:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180105215504.14aefb1f@xivilization.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07e8a536-984b-850b-6dec-2c30ea0cfb2d@inria.fr>
On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 14:44:05 +0100
Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
> The restriction on derivative works is very much intended.
>
> The license predates Creative Commons, but in CC terms it would be
> CC-BY-ND.
Non-derivative licenses like the custom one on the OCaml manual and
also CC-BY-ND create annoying edge cases. We've seen the case of
Debian and Fedora already. But reading the license:
> - Any translation or derivative work of the OCaml documentation and
> user's manual must be approved by the authors in writing before
> distribution.
It also creates issues for people wanting to contribute to the OCaml
manual on e.g. GitHub. It is not possible to create a pull request with
a change to the manual on any public platform because that would be
publishing without approval.
Kind regards,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-05 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-03 15:08 Richard W.M. Jones
2018-01-03 16:52 ` Boutillier, Pierre
2018-01-03 18:13 ` Allan Wegan
2018-01-03 19:12 ` Hendrik Boom
2018-01-03 19:04 ` Ashish Agarwal
2018-01-04 13:44 ` Xavier Leroy
2018-01-05 20:55 ` Marek Kubica [this message]
2018-01-05 21:34 ` Gabriel Scherer
2018-01-06 11:38 ` Oliver Bandel
2018-01-08 16:34 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-03-11 11:20 ` Maxime Dénès
2018-03-11 11:22 ` Maxime Dénès
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