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 inthe 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This presumably refers to the contents of Appendix H, but I wish it was
more explicit.
under the GNU-FDL 1.2 (GNU Free Documentation Licence) and is included inthis manual with his explicit permission.
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Doesn't that create a licence conflict?
Branden Robinson wrote:
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.
However, since Alexandre Ratti apparently gave explicit permission to include Appendix H in the manual, he may be willing to dual-license it under the GPL. You should contact him and ask him if he is willing to explicitly license it under the GPL. Assuming he is willing and that he is the sole copyright holder for that portion, this should solve the problem. Right?