Re: [lojban] lojban official reference licensing

[xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>]

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




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