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Re: relationship between debian's wiki and newbiedoc's wiki



On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:46:22 +0000
Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

How can I dual-licence my 'note' (if necessary), the one about
masquerading?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)



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