On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:26:17PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > No, this is not a mail about large-scale bugs I intend to file about > packages using the FDL. It's about 'how do I relicense stuff in non-FDL > licenses'. > > In the past few years, I wrote some manpages and one larger document > which I all licensed under the FDL. Although I did not read the FDL's > text at the time, due to the fuzz I heard being made about the FDL I > recently did so, and although I do not agree with all the arguments I've > seen in this mailinglist's archives, I certainly do agree with some of > them. As a result, I want to relicense all my FDL-licensed documents > under another license (GPLv2). > > My question is: what's the right way to do this? If all contributors > agree, can I just drop the FDL from my 'legalese' paragraphs, replacing > it with a reference to the GPL, or do I have to mention the fact that > previous versions were licensed under the FDL? Do I have to wait for a > new update of those documents, or can I just go ahead and change the > license without changing the licensed text? > > Any insights would be appreciated. Seen this? http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200307/msg00052.html That's as bulletproof as I could make it. It should suffice in any reasonable jurisdiction. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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