I'm happy with any and all my monotone contributions under the GPL v2
or GFDL (including contributions to monotone.texi) being released
under the GPL v2 or later.
Be well,
Will :-}
On 09/11/2007, at 4:10 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
In February, Nathaniel requested that all contributors to the manual
agree to relicense their contributions under the GPL (>=2) instead of
the GNU FDL.[1] I will recap his reasons:
Now, it turns out that [the FDL] is a lousy license, that is
probably not
even DFSG-free[2]. 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.
The FSF has issued revisions to both GPL and GFDL since then, but it
is my impression that these revisions solved neither the GFDL's
freeness issues nor its incompatibility with the GPL, and going GPLv3
is not something I would propose right now, anyway.
I'm interested in bringing the command-reference part of the manual in
sync with the --help texts, so I'd like to pick up the ball on GPLing
the manual. Almost everyone who has ever changed the manual has
agreed to this, but there are a few people who haven't.
If you are getting this as a direct mail instead of via the list, then
you made more than a couple lines' worth of changes to the monotone
manual at one time or another, but I do not know if you have agreed to
relicensing. [3] 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).
Thank you,
zw
[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/10115
[2] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
[3] For reference, here is my list of people who have modified the
manual:
* responded affirmatively to Nathaniel's original query:
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* not queried in February, but verbally assented at mtn summit
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* njs queried; no answer; small but IMO copyrightable contributions
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one short but nontrivial patch
c37bb9a142aa6668ab4283a63033817c4be072e0
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one fairly long patch
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* not queried previously, but IMO copyrightable contributions:
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Documentation of basic_io inventory; clearly copyrightable.
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Bunch of small, editorial changes, but the aggregate is big enough
that he may
have a copyright interest.
646439266654ad1c85075788847a1d120442a028
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2684e73f2ac49b377329f53da7d66931575fa672
dd1db3aa90cb7dba7b0abdf99b8ff1f8ea5ac9e4
5af39f81d849a70de81879efaa303fbe9f5a03d5
250f5fe22dcfc2be011a9b55824d1eec91f2b302
9eee564abe3da80c748428d8584919d63c38b23b
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* not queried; contributions are IMO not copyrightable
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two-line change documenting a subcommand
261a1dd0acf065381d27f4c10ee609cb25b70aa8
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three patches; typo fixes and use of IANA-reserved
example domain names
d64ee74bbafc09497d70c169667ae960171a5fcc
8975520d4b2c73065004cb9d21990885b391d36c
eb8b5710e3720d4fb4ee3ae573aacc3b629ae1a3
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one patch; change of quoting conventions
fcd914bd694bbcc6d0fca080ac4c8132f78f2c2f
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one patch; corrected "cat revision" to "automate get_revision"
e92a79a9a56076a4ead5013c29fb705a3c4de719
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signed a merge rev involving the manual, but did not
change the manual personally
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