On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:11:34 -0700 Geoffroy wrote: > Hi, > > We are a group of french debian users about to open a new web site. We > have in mind to translate debaday's articles and possibly some others > articles related to debian. Our concern is to use the proper license > but also to have compatibility whit GPL and avoid FDL. Hi! I really appreciate your goals: avoiding GFDL and having GPL-compatibility. > > I know about the issue concerning the DFSG and GNU/FDL, but my english > is pretty weak and I don't fully understand it. Unfortunately, this is an English-speaking list and my French does *not* go beyond a few tourist-like sentences: consequently I cannot help you in understanding the issues of the GFDL, unless you can read and understand English (or Italian...). > Anyway I want to know > if the Open Publication License (OPL) use for debian.org is GPL > compatible. Is a document cover by OPL suitable with GPL, providing > that it is still under OPL ? Unfortunately the OPL is *not* GPLv2-compatible (nor GPLv3-compatible, I would say). Worse than that, works (solely) released under the terms of the OPL do not even comply with the DFSG. This is a known issue of the entire Debian Project website, and a really hard one to solve, since there are many different copyright holders for it. Please see http://bugs.debian.org/238245 for further details. As far as debaday is concerned, the blog administrators unfortunately chose to adopt the same license as the Debian website, that is to say the OPL. As a consequence, debaday shares the same DFSG-freeness issues as the Debian website. I contacted them some time ago and pointed the problem out to them, but unfortunately they do not seem to have done anything about it yet... The usual disclaimers: IANAL, TINLA, IANADD, TINASOTODP. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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