Michael Olson wrote: > RMS definitely prefers the GFDL. I remember reading something to that > effect when the Org manual was being talked about on the emacs-devel > list. > > Carsten, what was the eventual outcome with the Debian package for Org > and the licensing of the Org manual? > Debian policy restrict packages with GFDL. See "General Resolution: Why the GNU Free Documentation License is not suitable for Debian main" http://www.debian.org/vote/2006/vote_001
Some books has GPL licence: http://www.gnu.org/doc/other-free-books.html This include "Debian GNU/Linux: Guide to Installation and Usage" "Open Source Development with CVS". Exist example another licence. Open Publication License also non-free for Debian policy. See package autobook as example. > For Emacs inclusion we need to have an LGPL manual, isn't it ? LGPL differ from GPL mainly ability link proprietary software with LGPL shared libraries. So there is no any benefit from LGPL before GPL. I am not expert but all I see stop on GPL. Also original licence from dvc.texinfo: > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this > manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are > preserved on all copies. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of > this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that > the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a > permission notice identical to this one. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this > manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified > versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a > translation approved by the author. do not take freedom to get source both with codified verbatim copy. For all who contribute to dvc.texinfo need send mail if they agree with new licence and reverted all patches who disallow copyright changes. -- Best regards. _______________________________________________ Dvc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/dvc-dev
