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FSF offers $20k for Gnome documentation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ain't-that-cool dept.

Booker sent us a message from [RMS] found on the Gnome mailing list where he says "The FSF would gladly pay someone $20k for the rights to a well-written and comprehensive GNOME programming manual. We would then publish as free documentation--free as in freedom, of course. We would sell copies in bookstores, just as these companies do, just as we do for our existing manuals."

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  1. the origin from Miguel de Icaza: by gavinhall · · Score: 4

    Posted by tha_skunk:

    Yeah I know it's sorta long and, but I really think this is even more interesting for /.!
    It's a mail on the gnome mailing list about
    Free Documentation ( free as Free Software not beer :-) ).

    Here's the link so check it out. It's really worth it.

    click it


    Free Documentation anyone?????

  2. Other avenues, too... by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 4
    RMS does use a system at the Santa Fe Institute for mail, I have no reason to believe this is fake.

    Every publisher I've been talking with lately says they'd be willing to use an OSD-compliant license on their book as long as the license applies on the day that printed copies get to stores and not before. That sounds fair to me. It gives the publisher lead-time over the other publishers who did not pay for the work, and we get free documentation.

    The down-side is that you might make less royalties on the book. Many of us can live with that, and if the author makes it clear to potential purchasers which publishers pay him a royalty and which do not, he might make a good lot of money anyway.

    Thanks

    Bruce

    --
    Bruce Perens.