[Pkg-kde-talk] license problems ...

[Matías Costa]

El Lunes 07 Marzo 2005 17:08, Alejandro Exojo escribió:
> El Sábado, 5 de Marzo de 2005 23:31, Pierre Habouzit escribió:
> > Ben on IRC reminded me one thing we should do ... that is : parsing
> > packages through to list licenses ...
> >
> > and the thing is, most of the HandBooks are GFDL...
> >
> > do you know if anything has been done with upstreams wrt that ? should
> > we raise the question on a kde list ? if yes on wich list ?
>
> Have you been talking about this on IRC? Well, anyway, my comments:
>
> Possible lists to ask about this:
> - kde-doc-english, for docu writers, and the related software
> - kde-i18n-doc, for translators (their work is also licensed under GFDL, =
so
> they will be interested in that, too)
> - kde-licensing or kde-core-devel
>
> My suggestion: wait. :-(
>
> Unfortunately, and if I'm not mistaken, creative commons and open
> publication license are also non-free:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/03/msg00226.html
> http://people.debian.org/~evan/ccsummary.html
>
> So if we can not propose any alternative license (for documentation), I
> don't know what can be done. :-(

The most valuable part in KDE, the code, is LGPL. Then, why not suggest make 
the doc LGPL too?