[Fedora-legal-list] a derivative of the Linux Documentation Project License

[Björn Persson]

Björn Persson wrote:
> The MySQL++ User Manual has another license than the library itself,
> but the -manuals subpackage inherits its License field from the main
> package. This shall be fixed, but it's not obvious what the license of
> the manual should be called. It's described as follows:
> 
> | The MySQL++ User Manual is licensed under a unique license derived from
> | the Linux Documentation Project License. (The only changes are due to
> | the fact that the User Manual isn't actually part of the LDP, so a lot
> | of the language in the LDPL doesn't make sense when applied to the user
> | manual.)
> 
> The license text is included below. Shall I call this license "LDPL",
> or does it need a name of its own?

I went ahead and called it "LDPL".

Björn Persson
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