Re: DDP CVS commit by jfs: ddp/manuals.sgml/ddp-policy/en common.sgml

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:16:34AM -0600, DDP CVS wrote:
> CVSROOT:	/cvs/debian-doc
> Module name:	ddp
> Changes by:	jfs	03/05/18 10:16:34
> 
> Modified files:
> 	manuals.sgml/ddp-policy/en: common.sgml 
> 
> Log message:
> 	Added information on the (approved) TLDP license

You need to be careful here. The LDP has several licences, some of which
are free and some of which aren't. The discussion on debian-legal to
which you refer was about http://www.tldp.org/COPYRIGHT.html; however,
you're recommending http://www.tldp.org/manifesto.html, which is a
different licence and at best requires complicated manoeuvrings to
exercise the relicense-under-GPL option before it becomes free. On its
own, it's non-free, because it requires derivative works to be sent to
the LDP.

Please change manifesto.html to COPYRIGHT.html (careful about case -
copyright.html is even more non-free ...), and refer to it not as the
"boilerplate license" but as the "Linux Documentation Project License
v2.0" or "LDPL 2.0".

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]