The Python Papers Edition One

[Shane Hathaway]

tleeuwenburg at gmail.com wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> "tleeuwenburg at gmail.com" <tleeuwenburg at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Yes, it's true that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for
>>> personal profits, but you may derive from it, reproduce and
>>> propagate it. You're quite right to point it out.
>> Then please revise the false statement that the publication is "free
>> as in beer and freedom", or make it true by releasing the documents
>> under a license that does grant conventional free-software freedoms.
>>
>> --
>>  \       "They can not take away our self respect if we do not give it |
>>   `\                                      to them."  -- Mahatma Gandhi |
>> _o__)                                                                  |
>> Ben Finney
> 
> I thought I just had. In what way does the statement "Yes, it's true
> that you can't resell copies of The Python Papers for personal profits,
> but you may derive from it, reproduce and propagate it" not provide
> such a revision and clarification? Seriously, let me know what exact
> statement you feel needs to be made, and I will endorse it accordingly
> if it is accurate.

The phrase "free as in freedom" is commonly understood differently from
the way you are using it.  Free as in freedom usually grants the right
to distribute for a fee.  Many Linux distributors depend on that right;
otherwise they wouldn't have the right to sell CDs.

IMHO your licensing terms are fine; you don't need to switch from the CC
license.  Just avoid the term "free as in freedom", since the Free
Software Foundation has assigned that phrase a very specific meaning.

Shane