Fwd: Re: sugested doc license

[Sean Wheller]

FWD FYI

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Subject: Re: sugested doc license
Date: Monday 01 August 2005 09:10
From: Stefan Kost <ensonic at hora-obscura.de>
To: Shaun McCance <shaunm at gmail.com>
Cc: gnome-doc-list at gnome.org

Hi Shaun and others,

> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 08:35 +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
>>hi,
>>
>>(reposting as the first post never came thru....)
>>
>>I'd like to work on the user-documentation for gtk-doc. The current bits
>>are under FDL and several people said that does not go well with the
>>GPL/LGPL.
>>What is the suggested licence for gnome application docs?
>
> Unfortunately, I can't give you a single answer.  I know a lot of
> people aren't happy with the GFDL, but most of our docs are already
> written under it, and relicensing is a pain.
>
> On a more general note, if anybody out there would like to help us
> with licensing stuff, I would love to have somebody go research the
> various documentation/content license and come back with some nice
> synopses.  We can make more informed decisions when we really know
> our options.

I've got these two so far.
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL
   http://creativecommons.org/text/

I think it would be good to put the discussion onto live.gnome.org.
On the other hand 'http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject' still looks a
 bit empty. Should I just start the tasks page and put it on there?

Stefan

> --
> Shaun

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