I think the book is aleady done :-)

Chua Wen Kiat jiyuu0 at kitech.com.my
Sun Dec 12 15:42:51 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 10:57 +0100, Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique)
wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 19:29:32 -0600, John Hornbeck <hornbeck at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Dear John,
> > >
> > > Sorry for the licensing issue.
> > >
> > > Now I understand. Ok i'll remove the line in the next release. I didn't
> > > think there was a license matter. Idea was to let people have it in
> > > whole and they can do whatever they want with it, just leave a little
> > > credit to the author that's all.
> 
> Chua,
> thanks for writing it and your willingness to make its contents free :-)
> 
> 
> > > How would you suggest I should write the licensing part? I have no
> > > problem for others to use/modify it. (The disclaimer was actually cut
> > > and paste from elsewhere)
> > > 
> > I would suggest the gpl or lgpl license for your doc.  Mainly the gpl
> > though that way anyone can use it for any reason, and they will still
> > give you credit.
> 
> The GNU GPL is intended for *code*. It's not really well suited for
> documentation.
> I'd rather suggest using a documentation license.
> 
> The Free Software Foundation promotes the GNU FDL
> (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html). Unfortunately, even if you
> don't use invariant sections, it has a number of problems, including
> incompatibility with the GPL. See
> http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html for the
> debian-legal opinions.
> 
> How about a Creative Commons license, such as the
> Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
> (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/) ?
> 
> 
> > I will start migrating your data over into our guide and than start
> > posting the work as it emerges.
> 
> Chua, did you consider joining the Ubuntu documentation team?
> 
> Best regards,
>  Quique
> 
> 

Dear Quique,

Thanks for providing the suggested license policies. These things are
sure confusing and boring. It just makes things complicated.

>Chua, did you consider joining the Ubuntu documentation team?
How do I sign up? 

Best Regards,
Chua Wen Kiat





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