Is Bazaar's document distributed under GPL?

[David Muir]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 14:26 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>   
>> Robert Collins wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I think the GPL is fine for documentation, as already mentioned its
>>> _more_ liberal for translators than GFDL. I'm not aware of any uses
>>> (including the printing of dead tree books) that the GPL would prohibit.
>>>       
>> My main concern is ensuring we don't unnecessarily restrict authors from
>> creating training materials. Someone working at company X should be able
>> to produce slides and tutorials with examples from the Bazaar docs,
>> without worrying about whether inclusion of those examples makes those
>> documents implicitly GPL.
>>     
>
> But what if it does? They then need to do, as binary distributors do,
> and provide the source.
>
> That seems entirely reasonable to me, given that bzr itself is copyleft.
>
> -Rob
>   
Except that in many cases, company X would not want to, or cannot 
provide the source for their training material (i.e. material may 
contain copyrighted works that cannot be re-licensed as GPL)

David
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