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Re: GFDL 1.1 or later



In message <[🔎] 20090328194920.GK5340@const.famille.thibault.fr>, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> writes
Hello,

I have a package whose documentation is licensed under GFDL 1.1
or any later without invariant sections, Front/Back-Cover texts,
Acknowledgement or Dedication sections.

How should I formulate the copyright file?  Say that Debian ships it
under the GFDL 1.2 and point to the common-license, or just stay with
1.1?

Stay with "1.1 or later".

Basically, unless YOU have the right to RElicence, you can't change the licence. And I doubt you have that right.

The licensor has given you the right to use it under a later licence. But unless they gave you the right to CHANGE the licence (which I doubt) then you don't have the right to take 1.1 away.

Cheers,
Wol
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Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk


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