Hi
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing does not mention GPL etc as permissible for documentation though I pretty sure we do ship GPL'ed documentation. Perhaps a generic note should be added that what is permissible for code is permissible for content (though may or may not be suitable).
Rahul
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing does not mention GPL etc as permissible for documentation though I pretty sure we do ship GPL'ed documentation. Perhaps a generic note should be added that what is permissible for code is permissible for content (though may or may not be suitable).
It's not generally true. The GPL, while used for some documentation, is a terrible choice. Other licenses are worse, because they explicitly make references to code. I've purposely not listed the GPL here, because neither Fedora nor the FSF wants to encourage its usage as a documentation license.
~spot
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing does not mention GPL etc as permissible for documentation though I pretty sure we do ship GPL'ed documentation. Perhaps a generic note should be added that what is permissible for code is permissible for content (though may or may not be suitable).
It's not generally true. The GPL, while used for some documentation, is a terrible choice. Other licenses are worse, because they explicitly make references to code. I've purposely not listed the GPL here, because neither Fedora nor the FSF wants to encourage its usage as a documentation license.
Right. So why not list GPL specifically as permissible but not recommended?
A related blog post
http://www.dhanapalan.com/blog/2008/02/16/a-licence-odyssey/
Rahul
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 23:25 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 15:16 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing does not mention GPL etc as permissible for documentation though I pretty sure we do ship GPL'ed documentation. Perhaps a generic note should be added that what is permissible for code is permissible for content (though may or may not be suitable).
It's not generally true. The GPL, while used for some documentation, is a terrible choice. Other licenses are worse, because they explicitly make references to code. I've purposely not listed the GPL here, because neither Fedora nor the FSF wants to encourage its usage as a documentation license.
Right. So why not list GPL specifically as permissible but not recommended?
Fair enough. Done.
~spot