Re:Software Methodology: Why One Size Fits No One
by walterbell on Sunday December 30, 2018 @12:17PM
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CC licenses have been vetted by content publishing lawyers in many countries. CC-BY 4.0 enables commercial re-use.
The Apache license was designed to manage software specific risks.
For the book, you can have a few chapters which are proprietary, clearly marked as such in the book, with the CC chapters explicitly identified. That allows anyone to republish/derive the CC chapters, but not the proprietary chapters. There might be a natural separation between community-authored content and your analysis/perspective chapters.
CC-BY 4.0 also allows derivatives of the community content to be proprietary, so the entire book can remain commercial. There are other CC licenses (share-alike) which have GPL-like qualities. It depends on which outcomes you want to incentivize, and how much effort you want to put into management of content origin, derivatives and/or issuing DMCA takedown notices to Amazon.
For revenue models, look at softcover.io, which provides free-to-read content with upsells to paid ebook and video. It has generated several hundred $K for the Ruby on Rails tutorial. The author has previously posted about this on HN.
The Apache license was designed to manage software specific risks.
For the book, you can have a few chapters which are proprietary, clearly marked as such in the book, with the CC chapters explicitly identified. That allows anyone to republish/derive the CC chapters, but not the proprietary chapters. There might be a natural separation between community-authored content and your analysis/perspective chapters.
CC-BY 4.0 also allows derivatives of the community content to be proprietary, so the entire book can remain commercial. There are other CC licenses (share-alike) which have GPL-like qualities. It depends on which outcomes you want to incentivize, and how much effort you want to put into management of content origin, derivatives and/or issuing DMCA takedown notices to Amazon.
For revenue models, look at softcover.io, which provides free-to-read content with upsells to paid ebook and video. It has generated several hundred $K for the Ruby on Rails tutorial. The author has previously posted about this on HN.