From: Seb <seb@untangle.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GFDL with cover texts
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:17:43 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrng505m7.fca.seb@mephisto.metaloft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9592BB6CDB1CEB48826BE86ACD71FA996ABF79@kwik.ic.uva.nl
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...
Cheers,
--Seb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-11 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-06 21:07 GFDL with cover texts Seb
2008-06-06 21:19 ` Seb
2008-06-08 16:31 ` Seb
2008-06-09 2:00 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-06-11 16:43 ` Seb
2008-06-10 6:32 ` Dominik, C.
2008-06-11 18:17 ` Seb [this message]
2008-06-12 5:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-06-12 15:07 ` Seb
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