Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:25:00PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: None of the options is used. Thus according to FSF this is a free license. Good to know. additional major point, namely the license fails to pass the dissident test (see http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html). The

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-29 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Stefano - additional major point, namely the license fails to pass the dissident test (see http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html). The reason is that every modification to a document published under this license must be owned by an identified author. This is the verbatim text

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:24:31PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: The name Open Publication License is right, the URL was wrong. Could you please correct the URL then? I guess the following is the correct one: I have changed it. The ftp server will soon have the updated files. Thanks.

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-28 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Stefano - Do you think it is possible to relicense the manual under a different license? (The best possible is usually the same that applies to the source code of the program itself). How many parts are taken from Oualline's book? Is it possible to rewrite them? We are of course

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-28 Thread James Vega
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:25:00PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: * The debian-legal as determined it as non DFSG-free (see http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#head-add2e754f3a906f07e4ff1c050a2548f04ef4cbe) Debian people tend to spend more time on splitting hairs than others. For what

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-23 Thread Bram Moolenaar
Stefano - On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:52:14PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: The name Open Publication License is right, the URL was wrong. Could you please correct the URL then? I guess the following is the correct one: http://opencontent.org/openpub/ I have changed it. The ftp

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-22 Thread Bram Moolenaar
James Vega wrote: In the manual-copyright help toic, the text states that the user manual and reference manual are licensed under the Open Publication License[0] (which is also referred to in the subsequent frombook topic). The URL[1] listed under manual-copyright points to the Open Content

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 09:52:14PM +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: The name Open Publication License is right, the URL was wrong. Could you please correct the URL then? I guess the following is the correct one: http://opencontent.org/openpub/ The book by Steve Oualline uses this license, I

Bug#384019: manual-copyright clarification

2006-08-21 Thread James Vega
Bram, In the manual-copyright help toic, the text states that the user manual and reference manual are licensed under the Open Publication License[0] (which is also referred to in the subsequent frombook topic). The URL[1] listed under manual-copyright points to the Open Content License (which