Hi Paul, Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2010, 17:18 -0600 schrieb Paul Cutler: > CC-BY 3.0 is incompatible with the GPL.
It's Monday morning, but even after a coffee I wonder why you mention the GPL while the docs are under GFDL? andre > I spoke with Michael Meeks about this at GUADEC this year and he had > no issues on behalf of Novell of using a CC license. They're both > copyleft. > > Re-licensing may be a challenge, but I'll ask the question. > > Paul > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Andre Klapper <ak...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Am Dienstag, den 21.09.2010, 09:46 +0530 schrieb Bharath Acharya: > >> After the FAQ, it'd be great to revisit the topics in the existing > >> documentation and filter it into the new format. There is a lot of > >> goodness in the existing documentation (2.32) which can be inherited. > > > > Work is ongoing to create a new Mallard topic-oriented user manual at > > http://gitorious.org/evolution-docs/evolution-docs . > > > > According to > > http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/id2462476.html.en the > > old user manual is "Copyright 2007 Novell, Inc. Permission is granted to > > copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU > > Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.2". > > > > The Mallard help is licensed as Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0. > > > > CC-BY-SA is incompatible with GFDL, but as far as I know ("I am not a > > lawyer") GFDL 1.3 offers to additionally offer the work under the > > CC-BY-SA license. > > > > Is it possible to have Novell relicense the user manual from "GFDL 1.2" > > to "GFDL 1.3 and CC-BY-SA" so that some sentences and sections from the > > old manual could be reused? > > This would avoid rewriting everything from scratch and would create less > > work for translators as some translations could be reused. > > > > andre > > -- > > mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed > > http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-doc-list mailing list > > gnome-doc-l...@gnome.org > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list > > -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list