Permission to use material in Gnome

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Matthew Flaschen:
> Matthew East wrote:
>> But - we need to give our permission to relicense this material under
>> the license Gnome uses (GFDL). Does anyone have any objections to that?
> 
> It looks like the project used to have a dual CC-BY-SA , GFDL license.
> Thus, the old version of this document is still under the GFDL, if it
> comes to that.

That's right. So, minus a few minor bug fixes, it's already ok for Gnome
to use this material :)

> I'm curious about why the Doc Team is reportedly
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/License) switching to
> CC-BY-SA alone.

You'll get more info from the archive of this list, but the reasons are
essentially:

 * We like this license, it's simple and does everything we need
 * Other projects that we want to use material from use it, Ubuntu
Forums, Official Ubuntu Book, and (hopefully soon) the Wiki.

>> I also have a selfish reason for doing this - I'd like to use the
>> aforementioned section as a standalone document in our help system :)
> 
> Why wouldn't CC-BY-SA allow that?

Because the Gnome document is published under GFDL, and we can't mix it
with our documentation. So, if we want a section of the Gnome docs with
some of our material in it, we need to ask them to add it, and give them
permission (subject to what you said about the old version already being
GFDL).

> Finally, wouldn't KDE also benefit from the Kubuntu version of this?
> Almost all of this applies to them equally.

I'm not familiar with the KDE documentation structure, maybe it would
fit in somewhere there, yes.

Matt
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