The Debian-legal team was very friendly and helpful. They have kindly helped me write down a copyright notice for us:
This document is Copyright 2004 by its contributors as defined in the section titled Authors. This document is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html), or under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, version 2.0 or later (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), at your option.
Thank you, Daniel, for these 3 emails so clearly setting out the background and proposal. You've done an awesome job researching this, and I for one really appreciate all your work -- as well as agreeing with your proposal!
+1 on the dual license, the copyright statement (but see my comments below), and the changed front matter of the template.
I like the placement of the "Authors" section where Janet suggested, after the Copyright section.
Just one question: I'm not entirely sure what the phrase "at your option" at the end of the copyright notice means. I assume that "you" is the person receiving the document, or intending to reuse some/all of it, and that person can choose which license they are going to receive or reuse the material -- is that right? If so, I think a slight rewording would make it more explicit. I also wonder if "choice" might be a better term than "option", which is used for so many things in computer docs.
I'm trying to think of better (but still short) wording, but so far I haven't succeeded.
Janet, perhaps you can think of something?
Sorry to be picky about this, but if we're adopting a new copyright statement, we should make sure no one is going to have a problem with the details.
If no one else on this list has a problem with this, I'm willing to let it go, but I did want to bring up the subject.
Cheers, Jean
