License for GNOME Developer's Guide (was: Contents for ...)

[Markus Fleck <fleck informatik uni-bonn de>]

[Documentation License]
> > When you look at the FAQ, you'll see that it's still an open issue for
> > me as well.  Right now the FAQ has a very conservative license which I
> > hope to open up.  Stallman has some sort of free literature offshoot
> > movement/license thing going on that Alan Cox has spoken highly of.
> > I've been meaning to chase it down, but have not done so yet.

Hi!

I recently wrote some licenses for the wxWindows GUI library -
also a "Free Documentation License", which is supposed to be a
copylefting license, that still allows "printed-only" copies.
It is modeled after the documentation licenses that the FSF
and some GNU projects use:

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  Free Documentation License
  ==========================

  Copyright (C) 1998 ...

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
   
                       FREE DOCUMENTATION LICENSE
     TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

  1. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
  manual or piece of documentation provided any copyright notice and this
  permission notice are preserved on all copies.

  2. Permission is granted to process this file or document through a
  document processing system and, at your option and the option of any third
  party, print the results, provided a printed document carries a copying   
  permission notice identical to this one.

  3. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
  manual or piece of documentation under the conditions for verbatim
  copying, provided also that any sections describing licensing conditions
  for this manual, such as, in particular, the GNU General Public License
  and the GNU Library General Public License, are included exactly as in
  the original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is
  distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

  4. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
  manual or piece of documentation into another language, under the above
  conditions for modified versions, except that sections related to
  licensing, including this paragraph, may also be included in translations
  approved by the copyright holders of the respective license documents in 
  addition to the original English.

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  6. IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL
  ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR
  REDISTRIBUTE THE MANUAL OR PIECE OF DOCUMENTATION AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE
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Yours,
Markus.

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