Re: [Evolution] Evolution user manual relicensing

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 22:09 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > 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.

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 13:42 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> 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.

Chen, is there any progress?

If nothing comes across my way I'd like to get the new docs in a good
shape in the next months (targetting 3.2 inclusion, with enough time
ahead for translation teams), but the need to rewrite lots of stuff from
scratch sounds rather demotivating.

andre
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