[FM Discuss] Front and back matter, copyrights

[adam hyde]

no. we use gpl. we used fdl once at request from the fsf.

adam

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 07:48 -0700, Chris Bryant wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 11:07 +0200, adam hyde wrote:
> 
> > 
> > did you read the manual?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > you may also like to read the third chapter of the manual :
> > http://en.flossmanuals.net/FLOSSManuals/FreeDocumentation
> > 
> > that gives a long essay on why we dont use the FDL
> 
> Which is what I'm referring to, in particular.  Some work here is FDL,
> which is what I would use myself, normally.  Maybe I make things too
> complicated, but if someone is going to be allowed to change a license
> for their chapter, I think a matrix of how licenses interact with, and
> in some cases negate, each other is important.  You don't have all the
> licenses someone could use in an FM covered, and someone could
> potentially toss one in there that causes the work to have to be
> relicensed before issue (worse case scenario).  Like I said, formal and
> complicated, which you are trying to avoid :)
> 
> See the following for reference:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
> 
> http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html
> 
>  
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