Re: templates

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:43:35PM -0500, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
> I also added the paragraph suggested by RMS, that when distributing
> separately one needs to include GFDL. No, I didn't (yet) include GFDL in
> DocBook form - only link to the copy in gnome-core and reference to
> plain text file. Should do for now while we think what is the best way
> to include DocBook version of GFDL.

  Considering that:
     - the GFDL is incompatible for inclusion of GPL or LGPL documentation
     - that most of the Gnome API documentation is produced by extracting
       the informations from the comments of LGPL'ed (and sometime GPL'ed)
       code

I thing we should be cautious to this move. Currently we don't have 
licencing issues because most of our code base is under the LGPL. But
since the GFDL is not compatible for inclusion with the Licence covering
the code from which the API docs are extracted, I would check first the
state of the various module and whether the people owning the Copyright
to the code actually agree with the relicencing of the informations
extracted from their code.

In practice I'm myself not found at all of the GFDL which forces to print
the full content of the Licence within any printed copy of the documentation.
I'm not sure I will accept to put libxml/libxslt documentation under that
Licence.

Daniel

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