2016-02-05 17:44 GMT+01:00 Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
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> Panicz Maciej Godek writes:
>
> >> CC BY-SA 4.0 is actually what  I've been thinking about.
> > I will add the legal notice by the end of the day (I only realized the
> lack
> > of it while I was writing the announcement)
> >
> >
> >> I see there's a copy of the GPL included with it; is it thus also
> >> licensed under GPL v3 or later?
> >>
> >>
> > I see you're an expert, so perhaps you could explain to me what would the
> > implications be.
> > My original intent was to publish the software that comes along with the
> > book under GPL v3, because AFAIK GPL regards software, but if there's
> more
> > to it, then it would be nice to know
>
>

> You can dual license it under CC BY-SA 4.0 and GPLv3 or later, which is
> what I'd recommend.  CC BY-SA 4.0 is GPLv3 compatible, but not "or
> later", and I think having an "or later" in anything GPL'ed is a good
> idea.
>
> For now I've updated legal notice so that now the book contains
information about the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Although I have nothing against
applying the dual license, I used the "doclicense" LaTeX package to
generate the information, and I don't know how to handle such use case.
Maybe I will fight with that later, but I guess that the code snippets will
sooner or later become a part of the repository that is already GPLv3+


> I've loaded the book on my e-reader, look forward to reading it!
>

I hope you have a pleasant read! :)