FSF Document Licence (was Re: Contributing to the Debian Users' Manual)
On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 10:28:11AM -0500, robert havoc pennington wrote:
>
[snap lot of good news]
> - RMS is reading the manual, and will get back to me on possible
> cooperation with the FSF, merging with their GNU/Linux Cookbook. This
> would have the following implications:
> - Using their docs license instead of the GPL
> - All contributors would have to assign copyright to the FSF
> - Writing in a more general way, though Debian specifics could be
> included too
> - The parts of the manual lifted from the LDP manual might have to go,
> if Larry Greenfield is unwilling to assign copyright. AFAIK we haven't
> asked him though. The LDP guide is GPL but doesn't use the FSF docs
> copyright. ^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^
+-------[ Humm... what is this? ]
> - The manual would be printed up and its sales would benefit the FSF.
> This is the big advantage, aside from not duplicating effort. I'd like
> to have a hard copy, and I bet others would too.
> - There might be some conflict on DebianDoc vs. Texinfo - this is pure
> speculation, RMS hasn't mentioned it.
> Once RMS gets back to me, we will have to decide if we want to do this.
>
I just want to know what is this document licence. I can't find it anywhere
on the FSF site or in their docs [or may be I'm too lazy to check all their
GNU code... ]. Can you give me a pointer. Documentation is one of the
major flaw I of the GPL, IMHO.
Thanks and good luck with this project.
> So that's what's going on, so you understand the bureaucratic situation.
> ;-) However, there's nothing to keep you from starting on sections of the
> manual. Pretty much anything that's not there remains to be written. I
> think there is a section on vi in the LDP user's guide; you might want to
> grab this from the LDP directory on sunsite and see if it's usable before
> writing your own. However, as I say it's possible that we won't be able to
> use the LDP stuff.
>
> Well, have a look at all the empty sections in the current manual, and see
> if you can fill one in.
>
> Thanks,
>
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