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It is my privilege to announce on behalf of the team members of the PCLinuxOS Magazine Project sponsored by MyPCLinuxOS.com, the April 2007 issue (#8) is available for download! Our previous issues can also be downloaded.
It's really too bad that the PCLinuxOS magazine uses the "no derivatives" clause of the Creative Commons license. A simple replace('PCLinuxOS', 'Linux', $magazine) would make most of the magazine very suited to any newbie Linux users, not just PCLinuxOS newbies.
While I think that Creative Commons is 'generally' more applicable to most literary and creative works, the direct association with a major Linux Distro would seem to preclude that. GPL is the right way to go here. I'm not sure why they'd want it otherwise?
I know that some are indeed releasing graphics under GPL, certainly literature is in the same catagory. Personally, I think Creative Commons is more suited, but for a Distro project, maybe not... Or maybe we're just being overly picky.
I would think either the GNU FDL or the Creative Commons licenses are better for literature. There are understandable reasons for not allowing modifications to a work, but in the case of a magazine or documentation, I should think that allowing derivatives should be o.k. Actually, there might be good reasons for a magazine to disallow derivs. I'm not sure it's a good idea for a FOSS project to disallow derivs though. Hmmm...
It seems that it would also preclude some authors from contributing out of philosophical/political/religious reasons (I dubble dawg dare you to argue that FOSS is not a religion to sum). I do know that some of the things I author, I choose to release under the no derivitives clause. One word substituted or changed can make a world of difference in context.
And why yes, I did just see Larry The Cable Guy here in concert...why does you ask?
I published PitP under the no-derivs clause since it's more of an argumentative book. Had it been primarily educational or fictional, I would have allowed derivs.
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