[thelist] GPL / copyleft applied to web content

Scott Rebol rebolscott at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 1 09:14:07 CST 2002


>From the horse mouth.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html

This is what I would recommend. Mainly because in the
end the GNU licence is the one that will be defended
in court of law, once it is challenged.

good luck

Scott

--- iris <laren4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> dear evolters
>
> i need some input on the copyright / copyleft issue
> relating to web content.
>
> i am going to write an 'accessible web design guide'
> for use of academic staff in the UK, which will be
> based on the one i already wrote for my own site.  i
> don't believe in copyright and also want to make
> sure
> my employers don't turn around one day, claim
> intellectual property and ask me to remove the one
> on
> my own site.
>
> i have mentioned GPL / copyleft to them and they
> seem
> to be fine with that.  the problem is that i'm not
> sure which licence to apply and how.
>
> there's a list of alternatives to the software
> focused
> GPL here:
>
http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/open_alternatives.html
> of which this one seems to apply best:
> http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml
>
> has anybody ever done anything similar?  advice
> appreciated.
>
> and where does html stand?  is it code or content?
> do
> i just licence the content or the code too?
>
> iris
>
> p.s. there's also an interesting article on the new
> scientist site, according to them the first magazine
> article published under copyleft.
>
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/copyleft/copyleftart.jsp
>
>
>
>
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