Okay, all these GNU licenses are a bit confusing as far as I'm concerned. I think I've got a decent under standing of the GPL and LGPL since I've used them, but my latest project will use the FDL. The project is a "book" on ancient history, of which the specifics of aren't important for this question. I plan to use Wikipedia articles for some of the basic background, thus it will be covered by the FDL, and not one of the easier to understand Creative Commons licenses. The license of Wikipedia is "Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.".
I plan to release the final work in and HTML format, and as PDFs and possible other portable formats(for handhelds and such), and of course to "source" files I used for the layout and editing of the PDF version. I may even make a print version available through something like Lulu.com, if for nothing more than to get my own personal hard copy. I know for PDFs, paper copies, and other things not editable, you have to make the sources available in a not proprietary format, and since I use Scribus, that should be not problem. I have no problem releasing all my work for free and was originally planning to use the CC Attribution share alike license, so I'm not looking for loopholes or trying to rip anybody off. I just mainly want to know how to comply with the license, especially with PDF and paper versions. Do I just just put a copy of the FDL in the appendixes along with a link to the source files and in the front where the copyright notices are, just put the same FDL copyright notice Wikipedia has? Is there anything else special I have to do? _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
