discuss: Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Migration process of the existing documents to Wiki
From:
jdd ####@####.####
Date:
25 Jul 2008 07:04:53 +0100
Message-Id: <48896D01.6080207@dodin.org>
Rick Moen a écrit :
>> It is true that there is no canonical list of DFSG-free licenses,
this very interesting thread show that a licence HOWTO should not be
unusefull :-).
And we have probably to update the http://tldp.org/manifesto.html
page that seems to me a little too short:
"Anyone may copy and distribute (sell or give away) LDP documents (or
other LDP works) in any media and/or format. No fees are required to
be paid to the authors. It is not required that the documents be
modifiable, but it is encouraged.
You can come up with your own license terms that satisfy these
conditions, or you can use a previously prepared license. The LDP has
a boilerplate license that you can use if you wish. Some people like
to use the GPL, while others write their own. There is a project
underway to create a special GPL license just for documents and this
may turn out to be a good choice ("The GNU Free Documentation License").
The copyright for each document should be in the name of the principal
authors. "The Linux Documentation Project" isn't a formal entity and
thus can't be used as a copyright owner."
this should probably be written somehow like this:
"The document licence must allow redistribution in any media and/or
format. It have to state that no fee are required to be paid to
authors. it's not strictly required that the document licence allow
modification, but it's strongly encouraged and any un-modifiable
document will be sorted in a special file."
to be followed by a example list of allowed licences with a summary of
the licence content (this paragraph seems obsolete)
last paragraph is good, I quoted it here because it's important to know
jdd
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