Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:36:06 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:If you changed the licence to be DFSG compliant, I would be happy to contribute. Then again, if you did that, perhaps NewbieDoc's wiki could be merged to Debian's.GFDL is considered DFSG compliant as long as the document doesn't have unmodifiable parts: http://www.debian.org/News/2006/20060316
This is, in fact, the version of the GFDL used by the NewbieDOC project since 2001.
It is easy enough specifically to dual-licence an article (GFDL + GPL). Doing this has made it possible for some of the NewbieDOC content to be included in the Debian Reference (which requires GPL). It would be very difficult to re-licence all the work in either NewbieDOC or Debian Reference - tracing all the contributors (past and present) and obtaining permission would be very difficult.
-- Chris.