discuss: licenses
Subject:
Re: licenses
From:
"Guru -" ####@####.####
Date:
13 Nov 2003 02:55:21 -0000
Message-Id: <Sea2-F5yRSGfM7QugGl00002491@hotmail.com>
"I looked at the GNU Free Documentation
>License (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html) and it seems like you must
>include a complete copy of the license in any document that you want to be
>covered by the license. It looks like most HOWTOs refer to the license but
>don't actually include it, and I suspect that is a problem."
It can be, but there are many documents which do this (outside the tldp),
I'm not sure whether you are required to include the license or required to
provide a link to the license, eg. web reference.
My document includes a copy of the license,
http://www.karakas-online.de/gnu-linux-tools-summary/
">And there is something else. The GNU Free Documentation License is
>not on the list of licenses approved by http://www.opensource.org. Is that
>a problem?"
I'm not sure why its not listed, maybe its because its designed for
documentation and not software....(well GNU defined free software, so I
think that it would be Open-source :))....
Or maybe its because of the controversy of the front/back cover issue (if
they are there you can't remove them which could be considered a restriction
in freedom...).
Anyway, its quite safe to use the license to protect your work as it
enforces freedom just like the GPL does for software.
Gareth
>From: Rick Meyerhoff ####@####.####
>To: ####@####.####
>Subject: licenses
>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 20:49:59 -0600
>
>Since there is discussion of reviewing existing documents and hopefully
>coming up with standard document templates I thought that I would mention
>something. I looked at the GNU Free Documentation License
>(http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html) and it seems like you must include a
>complete copy of the license in any document that you want to be covered by
>the license. It looks like most HOWTOs refer to the license but don't
>actually include it, and I suspect that is a problem.
>
>And there is something else. The GNU Free Documentation License is not on
>the list of licenses approved by http://www.opensource.org. Is that a
>problem?
>
>I'm still new to this stuff so let me know if I'm off base here.
>--
>Eric (Rick) Meyerhoff
>
>
>
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