Permission to use material in Gnome

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Sun Dec 24 10:50:00 UTC 2006


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Hi,

* Matthew Paul Thomas:
> On Dec 24, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Matthew East wrote:
>> ...
>> It occurred to me that some of the material we have would fit nicely in
>> one of the sections in the Gnome user guide - the stuff on the file
>> system, file permissions and users and groups. I've filed an upstream
>> bug about it:
>>
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=389033
>>
>> But - we need to give our permission to relicense this material under
>> the license Gnome uses (GFDL). Does anyone have any objections to that?
>> ...
> 
> You mean re-dual-licensing the Ubuntu documentation? :-) (I wouldn't be 
> surprised.) Or making an exception just for this section? (If the 
> latter, maybe you can contact the specific authors?)

Simply giving permission for this material to be used in the Gnome
document under a different license. And yes, just this section.

Matt
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