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2008/12/1 Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Michael Biebl made me aware that the doc files have inconsistent license
> information (thanks!). Some state GPL, some FDL, some even nothing.
>
> I would like to unify them to use GPLv3, which is consistent with the
> rest of this project. Does anybody object this move?

My contributions to the documentation where minuscule.
But anyways, you have my ok for the relicensing.

Cheers,
Michael

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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 02:02, Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com> wrote:
> I would like to unify them to use GPLv3, which is consistent with the
> rest of this project. Does anybody object this move? If so what are the
> reasons and alternatives?

One of the more documentation-focused licenses (e.g. GFDL or one of
the Creative Commons family) may be better-suited to protect the IP
concerns particular to documentation. I'm not sure I perfectly
understand why separate documentation & source licenses exist, but the
fact that legal minds greater than mine (doesn't take much) decided
the split was necessary causes me to at least pause and consider them.

A particularly interesting problem some have thrown at GFDL is that it
is incompatible with the GPL - you cannot convert in either direction
without re-licensing from the originator.

Feh. Licensing is a sticky subject.
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