Future direction of Ubuntu Documentation/Meeting times

[George Deka]

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> Matthew Paul Thomas wants to drop the GFDL and remove BY-SA from the
> Creative Commons licence as he believes that Debian will not accept our
> documentation any other way. I take particular issue with removing the
> BY part of the Creative Commons licence, it means that Debian or anyone
> else can remove our names from our hard work. We would also have to seek
> permission from the original authors of ubuntuguide.com<http://ubuntuguide.com>to change the
> licence they initially allowed us to use, there is no denying where the
> FAQ guide came from (and pulling our changes will be messy).
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I realise that the debian accepting our docs is a big issue. 
In terms of licences, we have been through this before, but i too would like 
to see a change.
Maybe using the GFDL like this 

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under 
the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later 
version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant 
Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the 
license is available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.

Which i think would be acceptable to debian, fedora doc-team use this 
licence as does diveintopython.
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