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

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

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.
> >
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