Licence oddity in Securing Debian Manual (was: Proposed addition to Debian web pages re: GNU FDL)
Quoting Nathanael Nerode (neroden@twcny.rr.com):
> I propose something like the following as an addition to the Debian web
> pages, at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/intro/free. I offer this
> up for revision and use by the Debian community, or anyone else.
>
> Motivation: some people seem to wish to remain in denial about the
> project's decision on this matter. This will help their psychological
> problem. ;-)
This reminded me of something I noticed earlier today. The Securing
Debian Manual at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ has in its
front material the following:
Copyright Notice
Copyright © 2002, 2003 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Copyright © 2001 Alexander Reelsen, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Copyright © 2000 Alexander Reelsen
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Public License, Version 2 or any later
version published by the Free Software Foundation. It is distributed in
the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
All well and good, so far. Appendix H of the Manual, in
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ap-chroot-apache-env.en.html
, has:
This document is copyright 2002 Alexandre Ratti. It has been released
under the GNU-FDL 1.2 (GNU Free Documentation Licence) and is included in
this manual with his explicit permission.
Doesn't that create a licence conflict?
--
Cheers, A: No.
Rick Moen Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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