RE: Gnome Desktop 2.0

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

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From: Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>
To: gnome-doc-list gnome org
Cc: Zlotow, Mary Ann <Zlotow cdnet cod edu>
Subject: RE: Gnome Desktop 2.0
Date: 04 Aug 2003 08:26:40 +1000

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 01:04, Zlotow, Mary Ann wrote:
> Thank you for responding so quickly. My dean and our bookstore are literally
> sending me daily e-mails, because I have not yet chosen materials for this
> course. What I would like to do is take the materials on the
> www.gnome.org/learn web site, specifically Chapters 1-9 in the Desktop 2.0
> User Guide, and have them bound in the bookstore as the text for the GNOME
> portion of the course. First, does this violate any copyrights?

You are permitted to do this under the license of the document (which is
the GNU FDL). Unfortunately, the link on

 http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.0/titlepage.html

to the details of the FDL is broken, so you can see the full text here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.1.html

(that is version 1.1, the more recent 1.2 version, which you can also
choose to use is here:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)

The only thing you cannot do (and I only raise this because it's
something a school printer might do automatically) is to put extra
copyright notices on the document saying that it cannot be further
copied without permission from Institution X, etc.
 
>  Second, do
> you have a specific date when the updates to this portion of the web site
> will be finished? That way, I can find out if the bookstore can work in this
> time-frame. Thank you.

I'm not involved in writing that document, so this bit I need to leave
up to others to answer.

Cheers,
Malcolm