<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi !<br>Here is Ivan Paulos Tomé. (Greylica).<br><br></div>We have a license from 1998, which is the first open content license, <br></div><div>in wiki, here:<br><br><a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderWiki:Copyrights">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderWiki:Copyrights</a><br>
<br></div><div>And one from 1999 (openpub), both at the same site.<br></div><br></div><div>Links:<br><br><a href="http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml">http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml</a> (old, july 1998)<br><br><a href="http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/">http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/</a> (new, june 1999)<br>
<br></div>I was following the openpub license, which is restrictive in some parts, <br></div>but at the same time, leaves room for others to improve the documentation, <br></div><div>or create derivative works in some levels. Most of the friends that are creating <br>
</div><div>books, are following the same rule. I have some Blender books here in my home, <br> and they are, in some levels, derivative works of our wiki with a reformatting.<br>But because of the media that carries the content (in general, books and dvds), <br>
and their reformatting, we never thought about this as a serious issue.<br></div><div><br>Sure, our nearest friends always respect each others work, for example, <br></div><div>some friends, when using some external contents, are putting links with <br>
proper information pointing to external sources, even when this information<br></div><div>is replicated in one of our wiki pages. <br></div><div><br>In fact, in blenderwiki or any other material in the market, when explainning<br>
how to use Blender installed with factory defaults, shows the same commands,<br> no matter what type of media it has been published, so, <br>most of the basic things are a common sense, in any media<br></div><div><br></div>
<div>I guess this is a good time to discuss this license, and because of the <br></div><div>common practices, move to openpub license. <br><br>This move, will only reflect the common practices already used in paper <br>prints and some DVDs with PDFs inside, and won't cause any problem or <br>
prejudice to our wiki, it's contents and friends, including me.<br><br></div><div>Cheers !<br></div><div>Ivan Paulos Tomé. <br></div><div>Greylica.</div></div>