Features
- Your Own Web (YOW) Doc and the software tools it describes are easy to learn and use. No server is required.
- YOW Doc and the software tools it describes work for one person or many people so an individual or group can create and maintain a web of static browser pages[1].
- YOW Doc has a Wikipedia like presentation. Internal links are inline hyperlinks. External links usually are only in hyperlinks in footnotes at the bottom of pages. Footnotes for example might be References as seen on this page or Attributions or Downloads as seen on other pages.
- Like Wikipedia, YOW keeps a history of its changes so you can improve your own web as you change it.
- The software tools described are FOSS, Free Open Source Software.
- The described software tools are can be replaced one by one or in whole with other software. Replacement software can even be proprietary (non-FOSS) software.
- YOW Doc by Scott Haines[2] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted. This means you have several freedoms and a few obligations in how you use YOW Doc.
Roughly your freedoms with YOW Doc are freedom to[3]
- read
- copy
- distribute
- study
- change
- improve and
- combine YOW Doc or parts of it with other writing (The other writing can be public, private or even proprietary.)
Roughly your obligations with YOW Doc if you distribute, change, improve or combine it are to
- acknowledge with attribution YOW Doc
- indicate and describe your changes
References
- ^ Static web page, Wikipedia, Retrieved 2016 03 25
^ More information about YOW Doc and Scott Haines is at https://sites.google.com/site/friedbook/ .
- ^ This list of freedoms is a slight variation on the statement on free software from http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html "Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software."