On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 02:46:16PM +0100, Bernard Massot wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:45:04PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Rene Küttner wrote:
>>> Under which license is the Exim Documentation published?
>> We haven't specified a special licence - the entire distribution comes
>> under the GPL. But I suppose that talks mostly about "source code". I
>> guess I ought to look into using the GDL for the manual.
> That's GFDL, not GDL. Using it would be really great.
> For people who don't know it, see :
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL
Please be careful with this license, if you make usage of some of its
options, the result can be non-free. See for example
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200211/msg00285.html
Quoting from this mail by Branden Robinson <branden@???>:
| In my assessment, it does not substantially address the major concerns
| that the Debian Project has raised.
|
| The GNU FDL, version 1.2, is not necessarily DFSG-non-free when applied
| to a work, but it can be employed in ways that are DFSG-non-free.
|
| As a first approximation, it appears to me that the following conditions
| must be met for a work licensed under the GNU FDL 1.2 to be DFSG-free:
|
| 1) There must be no Invariant Sections.
| 2) There must be no Cover Texts.
thanks, cu andreas
