[publican-list] licensing defaults

[Karsten Wade]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:27:47PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> Why is the default license in Publican the GFDL?
> 
> Why are Publican documents under the GFDL?
> 
> I thought we cleaned up use of this legacy license a while ago.
> 
> Default Publican license should be CC BY SA 3.0 Unported.  Should I
> just file a bug or ...?

Sorry for the abruptness of this email.  I was blasting through using
Publican for a build, realized it put the content under a different
license than I expected, and am busy creating a new brand[1] so I can
get the intended license.  I'd like to take the moment I should have
before and explain myself.

I recognize that Publican is a stand-alone upstream project and its
developers have the right to choose whatever FLOSS license they
prefer.  I don't mean to be calling that in to question.

First, I'm merely curious why the useage of the GFDL?  Does it have
advantages over the CC BY SA?  (This is based on the well considered
and supported opinion that the CC BY SA _does_ have advantages over
the GFDL.)

Second, can we consider changing the default license that Publican
puts on books using the default brand to the CC BY SA 3.0 Unported?

I'd be happy to rehash why Red Hat, the Fedora Project, and JBoss
(aiui) have embraced the CC BY SA over other free content licenses,
but I presume the Publican team knows all that.  (For example, I can't
remix any of the Publican documentation in to Fedora documentation or
use it in a new [[Publican (publishing toolchain)]] page on
Wikipedia.)

cheers - Karsten
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name:  Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener
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