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<li><em>To</em>: <A HREF="mailto:discuss@opencontent.org">discuss@opencontent.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:Laurie.Petrycki@newriders.com">Laurie.Petrycki@newriders.com</A></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: New OPL Draft</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: David Wiley <<A HREF="mailto:dw2@opencontent.org">dw2@opencontent.org</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:20:37 -0700</li>
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Everyone,
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Laurie Petrycki of Pearson Technology Group (New Riders/MTP, Cisco Press,
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Addison-Wesley Professional, Prentice-Hall Professional Technical Group,
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Que, and Sams) has provided us with a new draft of the OPL. This draft
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retains all of the intents of the original license, but the language itself
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has been reworked by the PTG lawyers. (This is a "good thing.") I am
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attaching it below for your comment.
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As for the content of the license itself, we have seen several good
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suggestions in the past few weeks. One is that the "publisher's name on the
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cover" option does not apply to (what now constitutes) the majority of works
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published under the OPL. I would like to recommend that this clause be moved
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down to become a third option.
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We have also read much about license proliferation and the confusion a
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person might feel when they see, on Freshmeat or somewhere else, a license
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listed as "OPL." Is that with no clauses? One or both clauses? rms is right
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in saying that we need different kinds of licenses for different kinds of
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works... but I'm not sure if options are the way to achieve different
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licenses. Therefore, I will make the following suggestion:
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We should create three licenses which provide varying levels of freedom /
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protection to the authors and publishers of documents.
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(1) The totally and completely free license Richard is finishing.
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(2) The OPL as below without the "publisher's name" clause but including the
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"no substantial modification" clause (not as an option, but as part of the
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license itself).
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(3) The OPL as below with all clauses (publisher's name, no substantial
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modification, no commercial book form) (again, not as options, but as part
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of the license itself).
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I will further recommend that we give these licenses distinguishing, yet
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similar, titles, such as Free Publication License (FPL), Verbatim
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Publication License (VPL), and Open Publication License (OPL). A scheme like
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this should provide some *much* needed consistency and clarity to the work
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we are all trying to help along. Of course, a naming scheme like the one
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above would require some flexibility. (Richard: are you willing to be
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flexible on the name of your license to create a consistency like that
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suggested above?)
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What does everyone think?
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David
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NEW OPL DRAFT (with language changes by corporate lawyers, but none of the
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content changes recommended above)
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I. REQUIREMENTS ON BOTH UNMODIFIED AND MODIFIED VERSIONS
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<li><strong><a name="01190" href="msg01190.html">Re: New OPL Draft</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Branden Robinson <branden@ecn.purdue.edu></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="01197" href="msg01197.html">Difference between code and content</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Wiley <dw2@opencontent.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="01209" href="msg01209.html">Re: New OPL Draft</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="01077" href="msg01077.html">Updating the OpenContent license</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Wiley <dw2@opencontent.org></li></ul></li>
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<li><strong><a name="01082" href="msg01082.html">Re: Updating the OpenContent license</a></strong>
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<ul><li><em>From:</em> David Lawyer <dave@lafn.org></li></ul></li>
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