[tei-council] Fwd: TEI licensing issues

[Martin Holmes]

 > Maybe we in the TEI could set a good example to our users by dropping
 > the dog-in-a-manger obsession
 > with controlling what people can do?

I really agree with this. Your examples below mirror my thinking 
exactly; if anyone can make money out of TEI, then that's good for TEI; 
and if we (TEI) wanted to make money out of TEI with a special version 
of the Guidelines, then we'd be free under a CC0 or CC-BY licence to add 
proprietary content which is under a different licence, and release our 
best-selling book without fear that it could be plagiarized.

OTOH, if the Guidelines text is GPL'ed, then anything combined with them 
in that way would also be GPL'ed, so could be taken and sold by anyone 
else, undercutting us.

I'm still prepared to have my mind changed by a scare-scenario I haven't 
been able to think of yet, though.

Cheers,
Martin

On 11-09-12 01:59 PM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Scenario a): suppose we one day think we want to produce TEI Guidelines Pro version, with more
> examples, better prose, etc., to sell for big bucks. If we had CC0-ed it all, someone
> else could cut us out.
>
> Answer: well, we're not going to do this, are we? I feel we should keep the Guidelines
> pretty much money free, and make money with other services. if someone else wants to make
> TEI Pro, good luck to them.
>
> Scenario b): someone takes the whole Gidlines, mangles it around, and produces something
> they call Real Text Encoding, which people confuse with TEI.
>
> Answer:  if they do a better job, good luck to them. we should stand in their way with legal things?
>
> Is anyone going to not get tenure, or fail to get a job, because the work they did on the TEI
> Guidelines or something is narfed by someone else? That could happen under the current
> regime, and our protection is our version control system and plagiarism detectors.
>
> So I am finding it hard to see a disaster case from a blanket CC-by.
>
> Maybe we in the TEI could set a good example to our users by dropping the dog-in-a-manger obsession
> with controlling what people can do?
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Martin Holmes
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