On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:09 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > [Resending] > > > Work is ongoing to create a new Mallard topic-oriented user manual at > http://gitorious.org/evolution-docs/evolution-docs . > > According to > http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/id2462476.html.en the > old user manual is "Copyright 2007 Novell, Inc. Permission is granted to > copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU > Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.2". > > The Mallard help is licensed as Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0. > > CC-BY-SA is incompatible with GFDL, but as far as I know ("I am not a > lawyer") GFDL 1.3 offers to additionally offer the work under the > CC-BY-SA license. > > Is it possible to have Novell relicense the user manual from "GFDL 1.2" > to "GFDL 1.3 and CC-BY-SA" so that some sentences and sections from the > old manual could be reused? > This would avoid rewriting everything from scratch and would create less > work for translators as some translations could be reused. Am just back after a long vacation. I have passed on the query to 'open source review board' at Novell. We would need an approval from them before proceeding on with this. Once I get a response from them, will get things done keeping you informed.
Thanks, Chenthill. > andre _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
