Thwab's data "license" [WAS: Re: Thwab final release]

[Djihed Afifi <djihedlists at googlemail dot com>]

I think the right question is: Do you actually hold the copyright to
these works and can you mandate whatever license you choose?

Copyright is a tool to protect one's works, not to protect some work
from being vandalised or altered. You can place all restrictions that
you want, but that won't stop malicious alterations of the works at all.
I wonder, how can you license it if you don't own the copyright?

I believe that "licensing" these documents makes no sense. In general,
publishers who publish printed books can claim copyright to the
accompanied commentary, graphics and any other work that they explicitly
produced. I believe any other claims to the work itself can't be held in
any court. The original authors, in most cases, passed away centuries
ago.

The works themselves have no license.

I think it is time to seriously discuss this.

Djihed

في خ، 17-05-2007 عند 11:25 +0800 ، كتب Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya:
> Salam,
> FDL have some restriction, last time I check. Some even claim that FDL
> is not *free* enough.
> 
> Anyway, do you really think it is a good idea to let anyone to edit
> the books freely?
> 
> Regards.
> 
> On 5/17/07, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy <aelmahmoudy at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:
> > as-salamu alaykom,
> >
> > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:41:59PM +0200, moayyad sadi wrote:
> > > the FDL is for the reference only
> > >
> > > all code is under GPL except data files
> > > which are FDL or GPL
> > > I did not make my mind yet but assume that thay are FDLed
> >
> > Well, are you sure that documents are FDLed ? I don't understand about
> > licenses, but usually those *free* licenses mean that the books can be
> > edited by anyone.
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