Re: FunnelWeb manuals copyright issues
Hi Ross,
Thanks for your quick answer !
Ross N. Williams writes:
> BTW: My understanding is that GNU
> documentation is not actually covered by the GPL; it's covered by the
> notice which I include at the end of this message (I remember RMS
> once mentioning that "we use a different licence for documentation"
> so I tracked one down). Am I right about this?
>From your quote, it seems so. There were already some discussions on
our lists and elsewhere about documentation licensing, because it is
clear that "contents" (texts, images, etc.) are of a somewhat
different nature than programs.
> >Also, the restriction on not putting them on online web sites may
> >cause problems, because it would be easy (and used to be the default)
> >on Debian boxes to export the doc directory as http://machine/doc/...,
> >and the user may then inadvertantly violate the licence.
>
> I imposed this restriction because I didn't want people putting up
> copies of the manuals on the web and then leaving them there for all
> eternity while my manual web was updated.
Well, yes, that's a point which is probably not much thought of
usually :|
> OK. Well I guess if we solve this, the documentation is either
> going to fall under your main distribution or your non-free
> distribution. I think it's desirable that it fall under the free
> one so I'm prepared to compromise (a lot) to do so, including
> the abandonment of my one-web policy. :-( Tell me if the following text
> satisfies the ten commandments:
This is great news !
> Copyright © Ross N. Williams 1992,1999. All rights reserved.
>
> Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim electronic
> copies of this FunnelWeb (www.ross.net/funnelweb/) manual provided
> that all notices (including, without limitation, the copyright notice,
> this permission notice, any record of modification, and all legal
> notices) are preserved on all copies. Modified versions of this manual
> (including translations to other languages) may be distributed under
> the same terms, provided that each modification made to the manual
> since its original release by Ross N. Williams (www.ross.net) is
> identified on the page on which it occurs, and the front page of the
> manual carries a notice referring the reader to the official version
> at (www.ross.net/funnelweb/). You may print out part or all of the
> manual for individual or organization-wide internal use.
>
> If I use this AND provide the FunnelWeb-source-of-the-webs, would
> that enable you to include the whole lot in your main distribution?
I think so. I guess someone on deb-legal will tell us if we missed
something.
> BTW: Please provide a deadline for shipping the revised manuals.
We have a code freeze scheduled for January 15th; it would be nice to
have it ready at that date.
Thanks for your effort,
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