[tei-council] Fwd: TEI licensing issues

[Laurent Romary]

Are we slowly going CC-BY? What do the others think? 

Le 13 sept. 2011 à 09:06, Lou Burnard a écrit :

> Slowly catching up here in Paris, but this position gets a +1 from me
> 
> lou
> 
> On 12/09/11 22:07, Martin Holmes wrote:
>>> 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?
>>> --
>>> Sebastian Rahtz
>>> Head of Information and Support Group
>>> Oxford University Computing Services
>>> 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431
>>> 
>>> Sólo le pido a Dios
>>> que el futuro no me sea indiferente
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Laurent Romary
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