From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: GFDL with cover texts Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:51:15 +0200 Message-ID: <98F264E2-8247-431F-896C-0F6945E33016@uva.nl> References: <9592BB6CDB1CEB48826BE86ACD71FA996ABF79@kwik.ic.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6gZo-0007XB-Fv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K6gZm-0007Wd-Mq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44890 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K6gZm-0007Wa-H4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:26 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:63435) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6gZm-0004CD-EK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:26 -0400 Received: from korteweg.uva.nl ([146.50.98.70]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K6gZj-0003AG-8J for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:46:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Seb Cc: org-mode mailing list Hi Sebastian, On Jun 11, 2008, at 8:17 PM, Seb wrote: > On 2008-06-10, Dominik, C. wrote: >> I would be happy to dual-license the manual. Does anyone know what >> piece of text I would have to put there? Does anyone know if the >> GFDL prohbits me, the author, to add GPL as a second free license? >> I sure hope not. >> [...] >> To be honest, I have absolutely no clue what it means, and it was >> not my intention to restrict use of the manual in any way when I put >> it under the GFDL. Back then I must have thought that this simply >> it the proper thing to use for documentation. > > The GFDL itself is fine, it's the use of Invariant Sections, Cover > Texts, etc that make it not-free as far as Debian is concerned. > > But anyway, if you're the sole author, you can definitely move to a > GPL+GFDL dual-license when you so please, but I guess I still need to > add that IANAL... I don't know what this last sentence means. ALso, can you point me to an example of the text that I would have to insert to make you and Debian happy? Thanks. - Carsten