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

[Gustavo R. Montesino]

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.

> And why does this only happen with gnome-db?
> Is it the same for other GNOME packages?

It'll happen with all GFDL'ed docs sooner or later. If nothing goes
wrong, the next Debian stable release (sarge) will be released with the
GFDL licensed stuff, but after that everything will have to be
re-licensed or moved to non-free.
 
> AFAIK, we are using the same license as the rest of GNOME, are we not?

I've done some browsing and, although most GNOME documentations seems to
be GFDL, it doesn't seems to be mandated by the GNOME Foundation.
Actually, I didn't find even recomendations... Did I miss it?
 
thanks.

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Gustavo R. Montesino
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