Licencing of Documentation

[Louise McCance-Price]

Hi all

I said I'd find out about the licensing of documentation.

It appears the winner is:    GFDL

let me know your thoughts on this.

best
Lu


Sivan Green wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 08:11, George Deka wrote:
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>>Hi All,
>>In follow up to what i had metioned during the meeting, i said i
>>thought there was an issue with using GPL as our licence. Having
>>remebered what my issues were with it i shall try and explain.
>>An issue that i have seen raised is the source of documenation. Are we
>>able to meet the requirements of the GPL on re-distribution of the
>>source.
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>As we are currently in transit to using a DocBook repository and using
>it as our document stadarnd source, I don't think this should be any
>problem. Moreover, there are already several access method (e.g. yelp)
>that use most of the documents in their source form, so this is even
>desirable.
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>Anyone care to correct me if I'm wrong?
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>Sivan
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