Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-03-05 Thread Anton S. Lytvynenko
Dear all, thank you very much for your suggestion. I discussed the questions with my co-author, made the amendments and submitted the request. Regarding the examples, currently I've removed explicit listings of the examples from the manual and added GPL notice to their files. I hope to make them

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-03-01 Thread Ian Kelling
Ineiev writes: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:55:00AM +, Ineiev wrote: >> > > ... >> > As far as I can recall, we are not allowed to accept gpl for manuals, >> > although that seems draconian > ... > > The GFDL is the license for GNU manuals; if some documentation > is FDL-incompatible, GNU

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-29 Thread Ineiev
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 04:39:35PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > > the entire repository with all previous history of commits (some of > which turned out to be inconsistent with the policies) to Savannah after > adjusting the current commits to the requirements? > > I don't know. I don't

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-28 Thread Karl Berry
keep both options to choose (dual GFDL+CC-BY-SA). Dual licensing is fine. Thanks. the entire repository with all previous history of commits (some of which turned out to be inconsistent with the policies) to Savannah after adjusting the current commits to the requirements? I don

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-28 Thread Anton S. Lytvynenko
Dear Karl, dear Ineiev, thank you very much for your answers. First, to be more specific, I mean this project: https://sites.google.com/site/mjollnirmagn/ https://bitbucket.org/featar/mjollnir/src/default/ It is devoted to the analysis of the experimental magnetochemical data for paramagnetic

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Ineiev
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 05:55:00AM +, Ineiev wrote: > > ... > > As far as I can recall, we are not allowed to accept gpl for manuals, > > although that seems draconian ... The GFDL is the license for GNU manuals; if some documentation is FDL-incompatible, GNU packages won't be able to use it,

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Ineiev
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 04:00:40PM -0700, Karl Berry wrote: > cc-by-sa became gplv3 compatible. > > Cool! I forgot that. > > Still not gfdl compatible. > > https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/08/cc-by-sa-4-0-now-one-way-compatible-with-gplv3/ > > In that light, I hope it would

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Karl Berry
cc-by-sa became gplv3 compatible. Cool! I forgot that. Still not gfdl compatible. https://creativecommons.org/2015/10/08/cc-by-sa-4-0-now-one-way-compatible-with-gplv3/ In that light, I hope it would be allowed. I fear it's still an exception that rms would have to approve :(.

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Ian Kelling
Karl Berry writes: > Hi Anton, > > CC-BY-SA is considered eligible for artworks, but it is not clear if > it is acceptable for the software documentation. > > Generally speaking, CC-BY-SA is not acceptable for documentation (or > code) on Savannah, because it is not compatible with the

Re: Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Anton, CC-BY-SA is considered eligible for artworks, but it is not clear if it is acceptable for the software documentation. Generally speaking, CC-BY-SA is not acceptable for documentation (or code) on Savannah, because it is not compatible with the FDL (or GPL). That's not an issue f

Eligibility of CC-BY-SA for documentation within a software project

2020-02-27 Thread Anton S. Lytvynenko
Dear users and admins, I would like to transfer the mercurial repository with our project to Savannah. The code itself is licensed under GPL3+ and the user manual is under CC-BY-SA. However, I am a bit confused by the guidelines and FAQs regarding the documentation licenses on the GNU site and on