From xah@xahlee.org Sat Feb 19 17:46:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Sender: xah@xahlee.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 4173 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2005 01:46:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m23.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 20 Feb 2005 01:46:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xahlee.org) (206.130.99.40) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Feb 2005 01:46:41 -0000 Received: from [192.168.40.35] ([63.197.243.251]) (authenticated) by xahlee.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j1K1keF03117 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:46:40 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6efc4677397176bc150e3f5799e54043@xahlee.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 16:12:46 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 206.130.99.40 From: xah lee Subject: Re: [lojban] lojban official reference licensing X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=139458407 X-Yahoo-Profile: p0lyglut X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 23868 The current license is really juvenile and unworkable. No publication or scholar is going to have his work in every sentence saying what has been modified from original. the mentality of the current license is great, where one can try to preserve a lojban standard yet have a good heart to let others do derivative work. The license itself however prevents any derived work other than students and personal notes of the blog class. i and other people would have made derivative works out of it, if not for the license. Sure, i can seek the official lojban group members and make arrangements or change the license, but that is besides the point and another step extra. Xah xah@xahlee.org http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html On Feb 3, 2005, at 6:33 AM, Xah Lee wrote: i'm interested in mirroring the official lojban reference http://lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter1.html then gradually edit it into to my needs as i read it. (so as to generate a tutorial from different perspective) The licensing has this clause: Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this book, provided that the modifications are clearly marked as such, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. this requirement for marking modified places is a bit impractical to follow. Is it possible to change this? Perhaps replacing it with something like a clear notification that this is a modified version? thanks. Xah xah@xahlee.org http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html To unsubscribe, send mail to lojban-unsubscribe@onelist.com Yahoo! Groups Links