Re: Call for templates

[Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy@Malcolm.id.au>]

On 30/03/2004, at 2:35 AM, Johannes Jordens wrote:

> I just checked (rudimentarily) with egrep all template files installed
> on my machine for hints of "license" or "GPL". Turns out that none 
> have a
> such a notice.
> So, does that mean that the template is distributed under the parent
> programme's license and the work based on it (essay etc) is a separate
> entity (untainted by the template's license)?
> Should I write to debian-legal what they think about that?

No it would be a derivative work of the template so the template would 
need to have a licence that goes with it.  Rather than the GFDL they 
should use the GPL or the X11 licence to avoid infringing the DFSG.

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