I am fine with anything I contributed to the manual being released under the GPL, v2 or later (although I don't think I have anything sufficiently substantive to matter).
-Emile Snyder (And hi to all you monotone developers; long time no see. Hope all is well with everyone.) On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:42 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Currently, the main monotone manual, 'monotone.texi' in the source > tree, is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). > Now, it turns out that this is a lousy license, that is probably not > even DFSG-free[1]. It certainly has a whole host of obnoxious > practical problems; in particular, it is never possible to move text > from code into documentation, or vice-versa -- the GFDL and GPL are > entirely incompatible licenses. > > So we want to change the license on monotone.texi to be GPL. This is > a boring and annoying change to make, which is why we've been letting > it slide for months and months, but... it really should happen. So. > If you're getting this as a personal mail, it's because at some point > you touched the monotone manual, and I ask you: > > PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CC'ING [email protected], AND > SAY THAT YOU ARE FINE WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO monotone.texi BEING > RELEASED UNDER THE GPL (v2 or later). > > Probably not everyone on this list actually made significant enough > changes to have a copyright interest, but hey, it's easier this way... > > Cheers, > -- Nathaniel > > [1] The question of DFSG-freeness is actually sort of complicated -- > Debian as a whole does consider the GFDL to be DFSG-free (as long as > you don't have any invariant section sections), but only because they > had a whole general body vote on the matter, and that was the majority > outcome. OTOH, the denizens of debian-legal, who presumably are the > subset of Debian developers who actually know what they're talking > about, overwhelmingly disagree: > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml#survey > Personally, I find the arguments that GFDL is non-free to be the most > compelling. > _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
