Re: templates

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

You are right - these are serious concerns. And of course, whenever one
relicenses things (such as automatically extracted from the code bits)
under a different license, copyright owner must be asked. However, it
shouldn't be an issue for most of user docs  - which is my primary
concern. For API docs, the question of  compatibility needs to be
settled (hopefully by someone other than me). 

Altogether, it seems like exactly the type of question to be discussed
by GNOME foundation board - with participation of FSF, Sun and whoever
else may be interested. 

Still: for user docs, GFDL is the only viable choice. 

Sasha


On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 13:57, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:43:35PM -0500, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> > I also added the paragraph suggested by RMS, that when distributing
> > separately one needs to include GFDL. No, I didn't (yet) include GFDL in
> > DocBook form - only link to the copy in gnome-core and reference to
> > plain text file. Should do for now while we think what is the best way
> > to include DocBook version of GFDL.
> 
>   Considering that:
>      - the GFDL is incompatible for inclusion of GPL or LGPL documentation
>      - that most of the Gnome API documentation is produced by extracting
>        the informations from the comments of LGPL'ed (and sometime GPL'ed)
>        code
> 
> I thing we should be cautious to this move. Currently we don't have 
> licencing issues because most of our code base is under the LGPL. But
> since the GFDL is not compatible for inclusion with the Licence covering
> the code from which the API docs are extracted, I would check first the
> state of the various module and whether the people owning the Copyright
> to the code actually agree with the relicencing of the informations
> extracted from their code.
> 
> In practice I'm myself not found at all of the GFDL which forces to print
> the full content of the Licence within any printed copy of the documentation.
> I'm not sure I will accept to put libxml/libxslt documentation under that
> Licence.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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