[Rick, apologies for the CC if you are subscribed to this list.] On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:54:31AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > 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: [...] > 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? Yes. Even RMS does not posit that the GNU GPL and the GNU FDL are compatible licenses. They are not miscible in a single work except by a party with copyright on the complete corpus. That's obviously not the case here. Please file a bug against www.debian.org, and feel free to quote this message. -- G. Branden Robinson | As people do better, they start Debian GNU/Linux | voting like Republicans -- unless branden@debian.org | they have too much education and http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | vote Democratic. -- Karl Rove
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