Packaging Guide License

[Matthew East]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 19:35 -0800, Jordan Mantha wrote:
> Hi all!
>    After a discussion with mpt and Madpilot on #ubuntu-doc I have become 
> concerned about the license for the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. I took the 
> guide from a doc done by Ankur Kotwal for the MOTU. The .deb package has 
> a GPL license so assume that the doc is GPL'd. This means that the 
> Ubuntu Packaging Guide needs to be GPL'd. I believe that it was GPL'd 
> because it includes quite  a bit of material from the Debian New 
> Maintainer's Guide. However, it also had quite a bit from the Ubuntu 
> wiki (which is not GPL ?). At this point I am wondering what the best 
> way to go is. Can the Ubuntu Packaging Guide be GPL'd considering the 
> wiki content? Should the whole thing be rewritten? I am not opposed to 
> that but it would be some work.

No, I think that is absolutely fine. The wiki is a free for all (IMO). I
think the GPL makes sense.

We're working on making the wiki licence a bit clearer: see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WikiLicensing

M
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