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Originally Posted by crispyleif
I want to publish a certain amount of material on the net in a way that ppl cannot (legally) distribute it commercially.
I think the GFDL is what I am looking for but I suck at reading large EULAlike stuff (please forgive the horrible comparison..).
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If this is what you want, the GFDL is certainly
not for you. With the GNU licences, you don't need to be able to read the small print, unless you are a lawyer, because they says all the important stuff in the preamble:
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The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other functional and useful document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially.
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If I copyright something, what does that mean anyway ? That you are free to use it as long as it says copyright somewhere ?
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Not a lawyer, but what
copyright essentially asserts is that you (as the copyright holder) have a (limited)
right to licence how that material is distributed and used.
You could use one of the Creative Commons licences such as the
Attribution-Noncommercial one, or use the GFDL and bask in the warm glow of righteousness
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