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
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ has in its
front material the following:
[...]
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation. It is distributed in
the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This presumably refers to the contents of Appendix H, but I wish it was
more explicit.
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?
Branden Robinson wrote:
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.
Please file a bug against www.debian.org, and feel free to quote this
message.
However, since Alexandre Ratti apparently gave explicit permission to
include Appendix H in the manual, he may be willing to dual-license it
under the GPL. You should contact him and ask him if he is willing to
explicitly license it under the GPL. Assuming he is willing and that he
is the sole copyright holder for that portion, this should solve the
problem. Right?
