[FM Discuss] FLOSS Manual GPL License conflicts with SuMoMo Creative Commons Attribution License, would it be possible to dual license FLOSS Manual?

[adam]

On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 17:01 -0700, Roland MoMo Tanglao wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
>  From what I can tell the following is true:
> 1. Support.mozillamessaging.com aka SuMoMo license is Creative Commons 
> by Attribution aka CC-BY (or it will be once I change the header of 
> SuMoMo to say that :-) !This is the same license used by Firefox's SuMo 
> aka support.mozilla.com
> 2. FLOSS Thunderbird manual is GPL
> 3. GPL and CC BY conflict so as it stands we at SuMoMo can't use FLOSS 
> Manual material
> 
> How to resolve this?

ignore the problem! ;)

i hate licenses. just reuse the material and 'give us permission' to use
sumo under gpl. its the easiest way

adam


> I've asked around informally and one way to resolve this is to have the 
> FLOSS Manual dual licensed  i.e. both CC-BY and GPL or
> drop the GPL
> Would dual license or dropping the GPL and adopting CC-BY be possible 
> for FLOSS Thunderbird?
> 
> Any other ideas to resolve this licensing issue?
> 
> ...Roland "I really don't like licenses and just want information to be 
> free :-)" Tanglao
> 
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