[gnome-db] Gnome-DB documents, GNU FDL and Debian.

[Rodrigo Moya]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:36 -0500, Aaron Gaudio wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:56 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 05:54 -0300, Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 02:21:52PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 19:56 -0300, Gustavo R. Montesino wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > While working on some Debian gnome-db packages, I've noticed that the
> > > > > documentation is licensed under the terms of GNU FDL. Unfortunately,
> > > > > this license doesn't conform to the Debian Free Software Guidelines,
> > > > > making the docs improper to the main section of Debian GNU/Linux.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The concerns of the Debian Project may be found on the draft at
> > > > > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
> > > > > (please notice that it's just a draft document, cited for reference
> > > > > only).
> > > > > 
> > > > > So, I would like to know if it's possible to relicense the documents
> > > > > under another license, and if there's interest in doing so.
> > > > > 
> > > > hmm, what other licenses? 
> > > 
> > > GPL would be the ideal.
> > > 
> > would you mind preparing a patch to change the documentation to the new
> > license? I was going to do it myself, but I'm short on time.
> 
> I'm no legal expert (or subscriber to debian-legal), but does the GPL
> work well with documentation? Doesn't contain many references to code,
> library and linking terms?
> 
since it is used (LGPL) in other GNOME documents, as it was mentioned, I guess it
does work for documentation. I'm not a legal expert neither, so not
sure.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo@gnome-db.org>