Branden Robinson said: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:54:31AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: >> This reminded me of something I noticed earlier today. The Securing >> Debian Manual at >> All well and good, so far. Appendix H of the Manual, in >> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ap-chroot-apache-env.en.html>> , has: >> >> This document is copyright 2002 Alexandre Ratti. It has been >> released under the GNU-FDL 1.2 (GNU Free Documentation Licence) and >> is included in this manual with his explicit permission. >> >> Doesn't that create a licence conflict? > > Yes. Even RMS does not posit that the GNU GPL and the GNU FDL are > compatible licenses. They are not miscible in a single work except by > a party with copyright on the complete corpus. That's obviously not > the case here.
Does "his explicit permission" imply a dual-license status? By granting his permission to include his document into a GPL-licensed work? Perhaps a simple license clarification from Alexandre? Did he intend to dual-license this work under the GPL? --Joe
