Re: [fluid-dev] Documentation

[Josh Green]

On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 23:38 +0200, Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've committed some changes to the developer documentation:
> http://fluidsynth.resonance.org/trac/changeset/176
> 
> There is a new document source "fluidsynth-v11-devdoc.txt" formatted for 
> Doxygen, and an updated Doxyfile specifications to process this new file 
> along with the library headers and sources. The resulting documentation is a 
> bundle of the function references with a main page based on the old docbook 
> document "fluidsynth-v10-devdoc.xml", with some additions taken from another 
> document found at http://www.toncat.de/fluidsynth/ and some more text by 
> myself.
> 
> I've changed the format from the original docbook XML format, because the 
> source comments are already written for Doxygen, and having the guide with 
> (automatic) links to the functions references is very handy.
> 
> I guess we should change the license. Not sure if going to LGPL, or GFDL. 
> This 
> is possible IMHO, because CC-by is not copyleft/viric, allowing a derivative 
> work (like this) to be relicensed with only a few conditions (retain 
> attribution, remove names upon request)
> 
> This is only a just started work. Fixes, additions and a revision of 
> undocumented/poor documented functions is expected during the 1.1.x 
> development.
> 
> Please, comments?
> 
> Regards,
> Pedro
> 

This all sounds great!  I got an email back from Peter Hanappe
confirming that we can change the license to whatever seems appropriate.
I'm not certain what would be the best though.  Any suggestions?

Best regards,
        Josh Green