Re: Re: GFDL with cover texts

[Carsten Dominik <C.Dominik@uva.nl>]

Hi Sebastian,

On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Seb wrote:

> On 2008-06-10, Dominik, C. <C.Dominik@uva.nl> wrote:
>> I would be happy to dual-license the manual.  Does anyone know what
>> piece of text I would have to put there?  Does anyone know if the
>> GFDL prohbits me, the author, to add GPL as a second free license?
>> I sure hope not.
>> [...]
>> To be honest, I have absolutely no clue what it means, and it was
>> not my intention to restrict use of the manual in any way when I put
>> it under the GFDL.  Back then I must have thought that this simply
>> it the proper thing to use for documentation.
>
> The GFDL itself is fine, it's the use of Invariant Sections, Cover
> Texts, etc that make it not-free as far as Debian is concerned.
>
> But anyway, if you're the sole author, you can definitely move to a
> GPL+GFDL dual-license when you so please, but I guess I still need to
> add that IANAL...

I don't know what this last sentence means.

ALso, can you point me to an example of the text that I would have to  
insert to make you and Debian happy?

Thanks.

- Carsten