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Consider licensing the notes. #20

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MiroPalmu opened this issue Apr 3, 2024 · 1 comment
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Consider licensing the notes. #20

MiroPalmu opened this issue Apr 3, 2024 · 1 comment

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@MiroPalmu
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As this is your work and you have reserved all rights for it, you can anything you want with them and rightfully so. However as these are public and the note states that contributions are welcome, it seems that at least one of the goals is to benefit the "greater C++ community".

Purpose of this issue is to ask you to consider different licensing options and how they could align with your goals for the note. As unlicensed work there are some obstacles to use it in some contexts. It also could discourage contributing to it.

If you decide to use some license, with assumption that one of the goals is to benefit C++ community, I would advocate to use some form of copyleft license such as GNU Free Documentation License or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

I find great potential value in this technical note to C++ community, as C++ has been missing freely available book-like documentation that goes over the important parts. Thanks for putting effort in writing this and thanks for the editors for their effort in it.

@MiroPalmu MiroPalmu changed the title Concider lisencing these notes. Consider licensing the notes. Apr 3, 2024
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Dear @MiroPalmu thanks for your response.

At Least one of the goals is to benefit the "greater C++ community".
Yes! I strongly believe that [all] C++ Engineers are almost as scientists because they are so careful with the details.

As unlicensed work there are some obstacles to using it in some contexts.
If you have this law background, please let me know what just one example.

As unlicensed work, there are some obstacles to using it in some contexts.

...GNU Free Documentation License or Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike....
Thanks. Once in my free time, I will try to figure out with meaning of them.

I find great potential value in this technical note to the C++ community, as C++ has been missing freely available book-like documentation that goes over the important parts. Thanks for putting effort into writing this and thanks to the editors for their effort in it.

p.s. In one of the interviews Guido Van Rossum gave a talk for Lex Friedman where he said that "I respect the C++ Community, but the main problem of C++ community is it's hard to be of this community if you are not already a member"

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