I think the book is aleady done :-)

[Chua Wen Kiat]

On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 14:22 -0600, John Hornbeck wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:12 +0800, Chua Wen Kiat wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:18 +0100, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > > 
> > > let's not make too much out of the license problem right now. We are
> > > working to fixing up the license on the ubuntu-site. When that is done
> > > we can go and talk to the guy and *ask* why he licensed it like this.
> > > It might be he just has not thought about it.
> > > It is nice people write about Ubuntu and it is really quite nice.
> > > Let's not flame him. If we can solve all this in a friendly way then
> > > that is much preferable.
> > > 
> > > greets all from Barcelona,
> > > 
> > > AP
> > > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm the author of the guide. Just came across this thread.
> > 
> > What license problem am I facing? I seriously have no idea... Plz let me
> > know before I caused myself any problems.
> > 
> 
> The main problem people will have with your guide is that unless they
> use the entire guide how it is, they cannot work with it.  It would be
> nice to use what you have and add to it to create alot better docs for
> Ubuntu.  We are currently working on a Ubuntu User Guide and it would be
> nice to use alot of your work to help us, but as you do not want any of
> it used unless all is used just how it is, we have to reinvent the
> wheel.  The main thing with OpenSource and FreeSoftware is that people
> can take pieces of works and add the pieces they like to their own work
> so they do not have to start from scratch on something that has already
> been done(I hope I said that right).  It would be nice if we could use
> pieces of your guide into ours and mix our stuff in and than have great
> docs when Hoary is released, than also you can use our stuff back and we
> would have a great amount of docs to work with.  Please consider letting
> us use pieces of your docs, and you will get credit for it, but we would
> add alot and even change some things. Also remember that you can use our
> docs with your stuff, but under your license right now you cannot mix
> ours in with yours because ours is freely redistrubutable(Is that a
> word).  Please consider.
> 
> John Hornbeck
> Ubuntu Doc Team
> 
> 
> 

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.

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)

Best Regards,
Chua Wen Kiat