On Sunday 28 May 2006 12:18, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 10:31:42AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > 3. Currently the manual is licensed under a somewhat restrictive license > > that does not permit commercial reproduction of the manual without > > explicit authorization. This means that the manual does not mean the > > definition of Free Software. My idea in keeping the license commercially > > restricted was so that someone could possibly publish the manual (or use > > it as the basis of something to be published) and that a part of the > > revenues would revert to the project. > > > > However, I am now convinced that there is little chance that someone > > would want to publish the manual without working with us and that it is > > better to change the license to GPL version 2. There are, of course, all > > sorts of other open source licenses, but given that the source is GPL v2, > > this is the logical license for the manual as well. > > > > Comments? > > Thanks for reconsidering. This will allow the documentation to be > shipped with Debian again. >
Thanks for the thanks. Since the my email that you reference, I have indeed changed the manual license, but to FDL (or GFDL as Debian calls it), which is the GNU Free Documentation License. I did so without invariants, or cover pages. I chose FDL over the GPL because FDL *seems* to me to be much simpler to interpret when dealing with documentation and specifically targetted to documentation. Fortunately, as of recently (March or April if I am not mistaken), the GFDL is also considered as a Free license by Debian in the way I used it :-) By the way, for Bacula users: I worked a lot recently (over the last month) on license issues for Bacula and for the Bacula documentation with the Debian legal guys and the Debian Bacula package maintainer, and I must say they were very patient with me considering all my questions and very helpful in finding solutions for the license issues :-) -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users