Hi Andre, CC-BY 3.0 is incompatible with the GPL.
I spoke with Michael Meeks about this at GUADEC this year and he had no issues on behalf of Novell of using a CC license. They're both copyleft. Re-licensing may be a challenge, but I'll ask the question. Paul On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 21.09.2010, 09:46 +0530 schrieb Bharath Acharya: >> After the FAQ, it'd be great to revisit the topics in the existing >> documentation and filter it into the new format. There is a lot of >> goodness in the existing documentation (2.32) which can be inherited. > > 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. > > andre > -- > mailto:[email protected] | failed > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-doc-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
