Re: [Evolution] Evolution user manual relicensing [was: Re: Evolution documentation update]

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Just a mistake.  I meant the GFDL, thanks for pointing it out!

Paul

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 12.12.2010, 17:18 -0600 schrieb Paul Cutler:
> > CC-BY 3.0 is incompatible with the GPL.
>
> It's Monday morning, but even after a coffee I wonder why you mention
> the GPL while the docs are under GFDL?
>
> andre
>
> > I spoke with Michael Meeks about this at GUADEC this year and he had
> > no issues on behalf of Novell of using a CC license.  They're both
> > copyleft.
> >
> > Re-licensing may be a challenge, but I'll ask the question.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > > Am Dienstag, den 21.09.2010, 09:46 +0530 schrieb Bharath Acharya:
> > > > After the FAQ, it'd be great to revisit the topics in the existing
> > > > documentation and filter it into the new format. There is a lot of
> > > > goodness in the existing documentation (2.32) which can be inherited.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > andre
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