discuss: HOWTO under my own license
Subject:
HOWTO under my own license
From:
Pradeep Padala ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jun 2005 20:18:50 -0000
Message-Id: <42B3300A.9020300@eecs.umich.edu>
I sent this e-mail to Guylhem Aznar ####@####.#### as
instructed in the LDP license, but it seems the e-mail is invalid.
Please forward it to the appropriate person.
Hi,
I am the author of the Ncurses Programming HOWTO. I released it in
January 2001 and it's been under LDP license since then. I would like to
distribute it along with the official Ncurses package (maintained by
Thomas Dickey). He sent me an e-mail with following issues.
---Quoting Thomas Dickey ####@####.#### --
> Will it be possible to include the HOWTO along with the ncurses
> distribution? You can just include the PDF, if that's appropriate.
I'm not sure. Here's what I see as the issue:
a) ncurses is (excepting for tack, which is not an integral part)
all MIT-style license.
b) the HOWTO states that it uses the LDP license.
c) when I checked on that, I only see that it (LDP) is a set of
guidelines for licenses.
It would make it simplest if there were source (even the SGML) and it used
BSD-style or MIT-style license. Adding something that was GPL would
create a headache.
---Quoting ends --
I am not sure what I should do in this situation. Can I just
re-license my document under MIT-style license? Does it conflict with
LDP policies?
Thanks,
--pradeep
