discuss: Confusion about GNU FDL
Subject:
Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
From:
"Greg Ferguson" ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2002 12:24:49 -0000
Message-Id: <10205150821.ZM16437@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On May 15, 7:29am, David Merrill wrote:
> Subject: Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:37:26PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I looked at the GNU FDL and I don't understand it at all.
> >
> > What are the recommended Invariant Sections, Front Cover Texts and
Back
> > Cover Texts for a typical LDP document?
>
> I would ask you to have none of those sections. They are not really
> useful unless you are an actual publisher who intends to sell the
> book.
Here's the GFDL license DocBook XML/SGML snippet:
<!-- Legal Sections -->
<sect2 id="copyright">
<title>Copyright and License</title>
<!-- The LDP recommends, but doesn't require, the GFDL -->
<para>
This document, <emphasis>Sample XML HOWTO</emphasis>,
is copyrighted (c) 2002 by <emphasis>author_name</emphasis>.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
License, Version 1.1 or any later version published
by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections,
with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts.
A copy of the license is available at
<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</ulink>.
</para>
</sect2>
regards,
--
Greg Ferguson * SGI principal engr / LDP contributor
SGI Tech Pubs * http://techpubs.sgi.com/ | gferg(at)sgi.com
Linux Doc Project* http://www.linuxdoc.org/ | gferg(at)metalab.unc.edu
