[Nettime-bold] <nettime> A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I got a PL digest [shand|nakov|recktenwald]

[Michael de Beer <madebeer@apc.org>]

> > does anybody knows the difference between GPL and OPL?. 

At itrainonline.org (website with ICT training materials for
nonprofits), we discussed which pro-freedom license we should use 
for materials we develop.

The main options were OPL and FDL.

The OPL is much easier to read by a layperson and uses 'softer'
language.  But we chose the FDL because:
* FDL has been translated into more languages
* FDL has more publically-minded lawyers behind it (we think)

The FDL is here:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

> "In plain English, the [OPL] license relieves the author of any liability 
> or implication of warranty, grants others permission to use the 
> Content in whole or in part, and insures that the original author will be 
> properly credited when Content is used. It also grants others 
> permission to modify and redistribute the Content if they clearly mark 
> what changes have been made, when they were made, and who made 
> them. Finally, the license insures that if someone else bases a work on 
> OpenContent, that the resultant work will be made available as  
> OpenContent as well." (see: http://www.opencontent.org/).

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Michael de Beer                              madebeer@apc.org
APC Learning & Practitioners Network Coordinator
Johannesburg +27 11 880 7878           http://www.apc.org/lp/
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