Re: change manual license to GFDL?

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:09:03PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      Should we change the manual's license to GFDL before release?
>
> If we're going to change it, then I suppose that now is a good time.

Okay.

> I'm not sure if we'd need to get this decision sanctioned, since "we"
> (the authors) are not the copyright holders.  Only the FSF can change
> the manual --- or maybe they delegate the responsibility of such
> decisions to the package maintainers --- I'm not sure.

The GNU maintainers manual says this, in the "License Notices"
section:

       Documentation files should have license notices also.
    Manuals should use the GNU Free Documentation License.  [...]

Based on that, I doubt we need to ask anyone for further
guidance.

I'm not really a huge fan of the GFDL--it's not a free software
license--but it's the GNU standard license for documentation.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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