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
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