Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: sample document library: copyright, copyleft, CC, GPL?

[Catya Belfer-Shevett (catya]

Tim Mensch wrote:
> Catya Belfer-Shevett wrote:
> > It may be that worryihng too much about licensing is just complicating 
> > things?  Why not just leave the docs copyright to the groups who created 
> > them, and folks can ask permission before using them?
> >   
> Because that way the groups would be linked to their documents online, 
> with potential bad insurance consequences? It's great that your group 
> has taken the risk and published your docs online--but not all groups 
> may be willing to take that risk.

Fair point (some of ours are behind a password, but not many.  we're 
also not dealing with insurance companies yet :) ) - it's easy enough to 
have a contact form / email address for asking, though?

        - catya
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