Re: [Evolution] Evolution user manual relicensing

[Chenthill <pchen gnome org>]

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:09 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> [Resending]
>
>
> Work is ongoing to create a new Mallard topic-oriented user manual at
> http://gitorious.org/evolution-docs/evolution-docs .
>
> According to
> http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/id2462476.html.en the
> old user manual is "Copyright 2007 Novell, Inc. Permission is granted to
> copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU
> Free Documentation License (GFDL), Version 1.2".
>
> The Mallard help is licensed as Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0.
>
> CC-BY-SA is incompatible with GFDL, but as far as I know ("I am not a
> lawyer") GFDL 1.3 offers to additionally offer the work under the
> CC-BY-SA license.
>
> Is it possible to have Novell relicense the user manual from "GFDL 1.2"
> to "GFDL 1.3 and CC-BY-SA" so that some sentences and sections from the
> old manual could be reused?
> This would avoid rewriting everything from scratch and would create less
> work for translators as some translations could be reused.
Am just back after a long vacation. I have passed on the query to 'open
source review board' at Novell. We would need an approval from them
before proceeding on with this. Once I get a response from them, will
get things done keeping you informed.


Thanks, Chenthill.
> andre