Bug#207699: (forw) Re: Licence on your Apache chroot environment doc in "Securing Debian Manual"
Mr. Ratti has kindly granted dual-licence permission.
----- Forwarded message from Alexandre Ratti <alex@gabuzomeu.net> -----
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:39:48 +0200
From: Alexandre Ratti <alex@gabuzomeu.net>
To: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>
Subject: Re: Licence on your Apache chroot environment doc in "Securing Debian
Manual"
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Hi Rick,
Rick Moen wrote:
>Hello. I'm hoping you're the Alexandre Ratti whose kindly consented to
>incorporate his useful work on Apache chroot environments into the
>Securing Debian Manual, as shown at
>http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ap-chroot-apache-env.en.html
>. If not, please let me know, and my apologies.
>
Yes, that's me.
>I'm a sysadmin and Debian GNU/Linux user, who noticed your mention in
>the Apache chrooting docs of GNU FDL 1.2 licence terms for that work,
>which appears to create a minor problem, because the remainder of the
>Securing Debian Manual is under GNU GPLv2 or later -- and the two
>licences conflict.
>
>It's possible that you intended to either (1) grant permission for
>distribution under GPLv2 or later of the Manual's copy of your work
>(i.e., "dual licensing") or (2) grant permission for distribution under
>GNU FDL 1.2 with the additional exception that it may be distributed
>with the Securing Debian Manual (i.e., "licensing exception"). However,
>that is (so far) unclear.
>
>If you're willing to do dual licensing, that would be wonderful, and the
>ideal solution to the problem.
>
No problem. I want my doc to be available to the Debian project, so I'm
going to dual-license it. You can go ahead and use the howto under the
GPL/GFDL; I'll update the master copy on my site accordingly.
>Debian management asked me to handle this through their bug-tracking
>system, so I've opened bug #207699, viewable at
>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=207699 . You can
>comment directly to the bug report by writing to 207699@bugs.debian.org ,
>or I'll be glad to forward your comments.
>
Please forward them; feel free to get back to me if anything is unclear.
Cheers.
Alexandre
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