discuss: Confusion about GNU FDL
Subject:
Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
From:
Colin Watson ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2002 08:45:56 -0000
Message-Id: <20020515084558.GA10793@arborlon.riva.ucam.org>
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:37:26PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> I wrote the second edition of the Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO. It seems
> to have been reasonably well received.
>
> It's licensed under the LDP License, which apparently is non-free. I'd
> like to fix that.
For what it's worth, I believe the licence used by the
Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO is free. It's the other LDP License
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP-COPYRIGHT.html, the "Copying License")
which has been considered non-free in previous discussions [1]. Unless
somebody can point out what's wrong with the R-S-C's licence, you
probably don't have to worry.
[1] Modifications must be approved in writing by the author before
distribution, which means that the document can't be worked on by a
new maintainer if the original author disappears.
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Colin Watson ####@####.####
