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[Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual
From: |
Timothy Brownawell |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:34:23 -0600 |
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:42 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Currently, the main monotone manual, 'monotone.texi' in the source
> tree, is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
> Now, it turns out that this is a lousy license, that is probably not
> even DFSG-free[1]. It certainly has a whole host of obnoxious
> practical problems; in particular, it is never possible to move text
> from code into documentation, or vice-versa -- the GFDL and GPL are
> entirely incompatible licenses.
>
> So we want to change the license on monotone.texi to be GPL. This is
> a boring and annoying change to make, which is why we've been letting
> it slide for months and months, but... it really should happen. So.
> If you're getting this as a personal mail, it's because at some point
> you touched the monotone manual, and I ask you:
>
> PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CC'ING address@hidden, AND
> SAY THAT YOU ARE FINE WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO monotone.texi BEING
> RELEASED UNDER THE GPL (v2 or later).
Yes, I am ok with this.
--
Timothy Brownawell
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, (continued)
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, rghetta, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Matthew A. Nicholson, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Joel Rosdahl, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Ben Walton, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Jeronimo Pellegrini, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Ethan Blanton, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Brian Campbell, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, joel reed, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Emile Snyder, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Jeremy Cowgar, 2007/02/19
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual,
Timothy Brownawell <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] re-licensing the monotone manual, Daniel Carosone, 2007/02/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] re-licensing the monotone manual, Justin Patrin, 2007/02/20
- Re: [Monotone-devel] re-licensing the monotone manual, Alex Queiroz, 2007/02/21
- [Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual, Sebastian Spaeth, 2007/02/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] re-licensing the monotone manual, Nathaniel Smith, 2007/02/20