On 7-Dec-07, at 11:08 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm slowly accepting the fact that a new release of libdbi-drivers is > warranted. One of the things discussed in the past are the differing > or absent licenses in the drivers and driver docs. This situation > makes packaging libdbi-drivers a dangerous task. The consensus was > that we should re-license all drivers under the LGPL. This affects > only the sqlite and sqlite3 drivers, which I am responsible for, and > I've checked in the required fixes. > > However, the driver docs should be licensed appropriately as well. The > libdbi docs and some of the driver docs are released under the GFDL > (with no invariant sections, which makes them compatible with Debian's > license policy. Don't ask me why). The remaining driver docs > apparently have no explicit license blurb. I'd like to go ahead and > include the GFDL boilerplate text into the remaining driver docs. Is > this ok with the authors of the affected drivers?
No problem if you do this with my contributions (basically Ingres driver and doc). --Toby > Are there any good > reasons why we should not do this? > > regards, > Markus > > -- > Markus Hoenicka > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") > http://www.mhoenicka.de > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Libdbi-drivers-devel mailing list > Libdbi-drivers-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-drivers-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Libdbi-drivers-devel mailing list Libdbi-drivers-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libdbi-drivers-devel
