Hi Ross, Thanks for your quick answer !
Ross N. Williams writes: > BTW: My understanding is that GNU > documentation is not actually covered by the GPL; it's covered by the > notice which I include at the end of this message (I remember RMS > once mentioning that "we use a different licence for documentation" > so I tracked one down). Am I right about this? >From your quote, it seems so. There were already some discussions on our lists and elsewhere about documentation licensing, because it is clear that "contents" (texts, images, etc.) are of a somewhat different nature than programs. > >Also, the restriction on not putting them on online web sites may > >cause problems, because it would be easy (and used to be the default) > >on Debian boxes to export the doc directory as http://machine/doc/..., > >and the user may then inadvertantly violate the licence. > > I imposed this restriction because I didn't want people putting up > copies of the manuals on the web and then leaving them there for all > eternity while my manual web was updated. Well, yes, that's a point which is probably not much thought of usually :| > OK. Well I guess if we solve this, the documentation is either > going to fall under your main distribution or your non-free > distribution. I think it's desirable that it fall under the free > one so I'm prepared to compromise (a lot) to do so, including > the abandonment of my one-web policy. :-( Tell me if the following text > satisfies the ten commandments: This is great news ! > Copyright © Ross N. Williams 1992,1999. All rights reserved. > > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim electronic > copies of this FunnelWeb (www.ross.net/funnelweb/) manual provided > that all notices (including, without limitation, the copyright notice, > this permission notice, any record of modification, and all legal > notices) are preserved on all copies. Modified versions of this manual > (including translations to other languages) may be distributed under > the same terms, provided that each modification made to the manual > since its original release by Ross N. Williams (www.ross.net) is > identified on the page on which it occurs, and the front page of the > manual carries a notice referring the reader to the official version > at (www.ross.net/funnelweb/). You may print out part or all of the > manual for individual or organization-wide internal use. > > If I use this AND provide the FunnelWeb-source-of-the-webs, would > that enable you to include the whole lot in your main distribution? I think so. I guess someone on deb-legal will tell us if we missed something. > BTW: Please provide a deadline for shipping the revised manuals. We have a code freeze scheduled for January 15th; it would be nice to have it ready at that date. Thanks for your effort, -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Why make M$-Bill richer & richer ? debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Support Debian GNU/Linux: | Cheaper, more Powerful, more Stable ! http://www.altern.org/ydirson/ | Check <http://www.debian.org/>
