Hi :) Hmmm, i thought i would easily find Richard Stallman's rant about the topic but it seems to have been toned-down somewhat. The Free Software Foundation do recommend using a slightly different version and a wikipedia article points out that CC-by-SA is almost identical http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-gfdl.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#DocumentationLicenses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License
Just to contradict that a little chat in LWN about the issue http://lwn.net/Articles/394430/ Apparently the GPL does mention the word "software" but only a couple of times. So it only needs a slight modification. Even a slight modification makes it a non-GPL though. Personally i think the best reason for not using the GPL is to keep all the licenses for all the official documentation the same so as to avoid confusion. I think people want to get on with work rather than get bogged-down in chatting about legal issues which most of us have no idea about anyway. An ill-informed consensus decision can still be 'wrong' and land us in hot water. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 7/2/12, Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com> wrote: From: Sigrid Carrera <sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 7 February, 2012, 18:33 Hi, On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:37:50 -0800 (PST) yecril71pl <giecr...@stegny.2a.pl> wrote: > > Jean Weber wrote > > > > The existing user guides are licensed the same as the OOo > > guides they were derived from, and the templates include this > > licensing information on the Copyright page (GPL and CC-BY dual > > license). > > > > Note that GPL applied to documentation is void, so it may as well > be removed. Says who? Can you give me a reliable source for this? And also, in which country? Sigrid -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
