research on using the GFDL

[Thomas Jones]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
>>
>>
>> The guide in itself is a mood point(although it probably is itself a 
>> derivative of the accepted procedures and/or content from the FSF 
>> representatives).
>>
>
> Emma is the only person actively maintaining the LDP authors guide and 
> is not linked with FSF. In fact, the LDP manifesto doesnt specify 
> modifiability of documents as a license requirement  and documents a 
> broad range of non-free software and would likely fail to meet FSF 
> criterias
>
> regards
> Rahul
>
OK .. I had meant the listing of LDP authors located at the following 
address:
http://www.tldp.org/contrib.html

But that matters not. The original point was that the documents 
currently being developed in the LDP project are highly 
scrutenized(spelling?) for legal requirements. Thus my point that it may 
be a good idea to utilize currently existing resources.

 From the LDP website:
To be accepted into The Linux Documentation Project the document has to 
be licensed according to either GFDL, Creating Commons or TLDP 
copyright, for more information please look at the licensing section 
<http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/doc-licensing.html> of the 
Author Guide.

 From section 6.2(licensing section 
<http://tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/doc-licensing.html>) of LDP 
Author Guide:
We recommend using the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) 
<http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html>, one of the Creative Commons 
Licenses <http://www.creativecommons.org/license>, or the LDP license 
(currently under review).

I don't claim to know the legal ramblings of such. In fact, I feel sorry 
for Karsten ---  that little bit of content posted gave me a headache. ;)

All I know is they have representatives such as ESR reviewing the legal 
aspects of the document structures being derived from the guide.

That's good enough for me.

If you know of some loophole because of the manifesto; you may want to 
forward that to ESR or another representative of FSF. I am sure they'd 
be interested to know of your findings.

Cheers,
Thomas