[scribus] Copyright -- Free to copy license

[William F. Maddock]

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>From: Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Aug 11, 2008 11:54 AM
>To: Info List Scribus <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>Subject: [scribus] Copyright -- Free to copy license
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>If I produce a document, I would like the copyright to be such that people are free to copy and modify it, but to retain the credit for my part of the work. Initially, I thought that the GNU Free Documentation License (GFPL) would be a good choice. However, one condition makes it completely impractical, namely that you must : "...include a copy of the License in the document" and that it must be a verbatim copy.
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>This is completely impractical for short documents, and even for a 300 page book, I would not want to have to put in several pages, just for the sake of including a copy of the GFPL.
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>Does anyone know of a License that accomplishes essentially the same thing as the GFPL, but without such an onerous condition attached?  Just imagine producing a one page document to be licensed under GFPL, where even reformatted in tiny print, it would take three pages!
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>Thanks for suggestions.

Take a look at http://billsey-christian.net/St-LouisAmigan081015.pdf looking particularly at the small box at the bottom-center of the first page. Might a variant of that not suffice?