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

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

Hi Andre,

CC-BY 3.0 is incompatible with the GPL.

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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