The Safari user license
would involve special restrictions,1 Henning warned,
but O'Reilly was willing to allow for a copyright that
permitted users to copy and share and the book's text
regardless of medium. Basically, as author, I had the
choice between two licenses: the Open Publication
License or the GNU Free Documentation License.
I checked out the contents and background of each
license. The Open Publication License (OPL)See "The Open Publication License:
Draft v1.0" (June 8, 1999).
http://opencontent.org/openpub/
gives readers the right to reproduce and distribute a
work, in whole or in part, in any medium "physical or
electronic," provided the copied work retains the Open
Publication License. It also permits modification of a
work, provided certain conditions are met. Finally, the
Open Publication License includes a number of options,
which, if selected by the author, can limit the
creation of "substantively modified" versions or
book-form derivatives without prior author approval.
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