Eric Blake wrote: > On 08/04/2011 10:02 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> On 08/04/11 08:49, Santiago Vila wrote: >>> Do you need a policy for dual-licensing? I think it would be just >>> enough that you are allowed to dual-license it >> >> Well, the coding standards say simply >> "Manuals should use the GNU Free Documentation License." >> I would have real qualms about dual-licensing with >> Joe Random License, but it may be that the GPL is OK. >> I'll ask. > > In the past, when this issue was raised, the Debian community deemed > patches such as the following as sufficient to resolve the licensing > qualms, and the change complied with the GNU Coding Standards: > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/commit?id=ee1e92ec
Thanks, Eric. That works for me. I've just pushed this: >From 789252980fa8ef3d804372cd347898aa5c2ec7fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:59:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: relax restriction on front-cover and back-cover texts * doc/diffutils.texi (copying): Relax restriction on front-cover and back-cover texts (just as m4 did here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/m4.git/commit?id=ee1e92ec). Reported by Santiago Vila. Fix suggested by Eric Blake. --- doc/diffutils.texi | 11 +++-------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/diffutils.texi b/doc/diffutils.texi index 4abc3fe..ee419a1 100644 --- a/doc/diffutils.texi +++ b/doc/diffutils.texi @@ -21,14 +21,9 @@ Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,'' -and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the -license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation -License.'' - -(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to -copy and modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF -supports it in developing GNU and promoting software freedom.'' +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. +A copy of the license is included in the section entitled +``@acronym{GNU} Free Documentation License.'' @end quotation @end copying -- 1.7.4.4
