discuss: Confusion about GNU FDL
Subject:
Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
From:
Gregory Leblanc ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2002 16:58:24 -0000
Message-Id: <1021481869.1658.23.camel@peecee>
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:52, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:21:44AM -0400, Greg Ferguson wrote:
> > 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>
>
> Is it unnecessary to put the entire license in your document?
I just had this chat with Richard a month or two ago. You MUST include
the entire GFDL in your document.
Greg
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