[Bf-docboard] OCL vs FDL

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi Felix,

The OCL says:

"You may at your option charge a fee for the media and/or handling 
involved in creating a unique copy of the OC for use offline"

This means that you are allowed to charge a fee for distributing, 
printing, copying, DTP & design, marketing, sales, whatever. For any 
publisher that's comprehensible, and no limitation to apply OCL in a 
commercial product.
I will check this interpretation with the OpenContent people. If I'm 
wrong, we'll change the wording, or just leave that sentence out.

I've heard the arguments now. A decision follows.

Basta!

-Ton-


Felix Rabe wrote:
> Hi Ton.
> 
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:46:38 +0100
> Ton Roosendaal <ton@blender.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>"You may not charge a fee for the OC itself"
> 
> 
> OC = Open Content - just in case, but I think you already got that...
> 
> 
>>Explain to me, how you can ever 'sell' the Blender GPL-ed sources? You 
>>can't. The GNU GPL license simply excludes that.
> 
> 
> Tell me how it does exclude that?  Explicitly?
> 
> 
>>Here's what the FSF says about it themselves:
> 
> 
>>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
> 
> 
>>A quote:
> 
> 
> A good one.
> 
> 
>>"we suggest it is better to avoid using the term ``selling software'' 
>>and choose some other wording instead. For example, you could say 
>>``distributing free software for a fee''--that is unambiguous. "
> 
> 
> Again: "You may not charge a fee for the OC itself", i.e. (?) you may
> not distribute OC for a fee?
> 
> Anyway, for mortal people, "distribute ... for a fee" and "charge a fee
> for ..." means the same, so if the OCL excludes that, it is not a free
> documentation license.  If it does not, then the OCL makes a very bad
> job at being a free doc. license, since it makes misleading statements.
> 
> cu,
> Felix
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