Re: GTK+ Documentation Licence

[Damon Chaplin <damon@karuna.freeserve.co.uk>]

Mel Pullen wrote:
> 
> I'm astounded. You want writers to assign copyright on GTK+
> documentation to a commercial organisation  (Red Hat) ? It will
> eventually be owned by IBM and any intellectual property rights will be
> transferred. IBM is not as benign.
> 
> What about all of the other documentation projects that offer variations
> of the GPL ?  DDP, LDP, OPL all serve to protect the users rights.

Can you give me URLs for these. I'd be happier with an open license,
but the decision is not mine.

I think RedHat just want to be sure they don't get into legal trouble
when publishing the material. If we can provide a watertight open license
they may accept it.


Damon