On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:40:26PM -0600, Mark Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday, January 18, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 01:25:37PM -0600, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Shouldn't the license be the FDL? Seems to me that the FDL is the
> > > documentation counterpart to the GPL.
> > >
> > > License: FDL
> > >
> > For this and other issues (i.e docbook vs debiandoc) you might want
> > to read the current draft for the DDP policy available at
> > www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ddp-policy
>
> Thanks Javi.
>
> The following statement concerning the GFDL is in the ddp policy manual:
>
> "The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) is acceptable provided
> that there are no Cover Texts or Invariant sections."
>
> Since I haven't a clue what "Cover Texts" or "Invariant sections" are,
> I'm inclined to go with the GPL.
I think you are right.
I think to make GFDL meaningful, you have to define what is "Invariant
sections". If you declare there is no section called as such, GFDL is
practically same as GPL (I have not read it for a year, so I may be
wrong.)
I think GPL is better over GFDL since we have no need to please
publishers who will get license to publish these documents kind of
exclusively. I thought those cover page gives those protection to the
publisher.
> Does the GPL sound appropriate to the DDP for this policy doc? (I'd
> like to keep things as simple as possible.)
Anyway, all previous policy documents are written in GPL as I vaguely
remember, this makes easy to cut and copy them between different
documents or merge them into a huge book.
I think that this type of policy in combination with recently made
conversion script tools[*1], it will be quite easy for us to move toward
docbook-xml. I am anxious to see it.
Please make this policy document itself as a good example of xml package
so we can follow the path :)
Osamu
*1) http://cvs.debian.org/ddp/utils/debiandoc-to-docbook/?cvsroot=debian-doc
and
http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/ddp/utils/debiandoc-to-docbook/dd2xml.html?rev=HEAD&cvsroot=debian-doc&content-type=text/html
(Please critique this)