Hi Nicodemo, RMS asked us to use a GFDL-compatible license for manuals, which sadly excludes the GNU GPL :/
I think it's a good idea to show the FSF blog post to this author, but I don't think it's our role to convince him to change his plans - more often than than we aren't as knowledgeable as the author. Last, I think it's better to use more complete answers for GNU/Linux<->Linux issues, otherwise we won't be understood. Possibly you can use the canned text from savannah.el. What do you think? -- Sylvain On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:44:58AM +0000, Nicodemo Alvaro wrote: > > Follow-up Comment #3, task #9328 (project administration): > > In my opinion, what makes great software is that someone knows how to use it. > It is quite often that people, use different manners of learning how to use > the software. Usually, the best way is to read good documentation. You may > argure that it would be better to customize the UI to what the user sees fit. > Perhaps, you could write documentation for developers on the design that you > think would make their program much better. > > So I would advise taking a look at the different Free documentation licenses > if you are going to place your design and manuals on Savannah. Of course, we > accept our GNU Free Documentation License (and compatibles), even though is > not compatible with the GNU GPL. Do not use a GNU license without the "or any > later version" wording in your notices, as that creates future compatibility > problems. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#DocumentationLicenses > > You will have to add copyright and license notices, for this to work. Also, > please stop using linux, when refer to the Operating System, and instead use > GNU/Linux which refers to a more complete OS.
