Re: Copyright/License of Debian Constitution (parts 2-3)

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

Here is the relevant replies on debian-user.

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 04:55, Travis Crump wrote: 
> John Hasler wrote:
> > Dwayne C. Litzenberger writes:
> > 
> >>I'm not sure if this is the right list to ask on, but what's the
> >>copyright/license status of the Debian Constitution?
> >>
> >>        http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution
> >>
> >>I'm heading up changes to the constitution of a local non-profit member
> >>organization, and I want to adapt the Standard Resolution Procedure for our
> >>purposes.
> > 
> > 
> > The procedure is an idea and so not protected by copyright.  Just reword it.
> 
> a) Go try and 'reword' a book and try to pass it off as your own.
> b) It is a legal document and consequently not necessarily trivial to 
> reword in much the same way that it is generally discouraged for people 
> to try to 'reword' the GPL into their own license.