Re: How to insert GPL-text into gcmd documentation

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org> wrote:
> I think that itstool will pick up the strings from legal.xml just fine but
> it's a lot of extra strings for translation. IANAL but maybe you could just
> include a standard legal notice there, such as:
>
> This manual is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> Software Foundation...
>
> I see you already distribute the full text of the license in
> https://github.com/gcmd/gnome-commander/blob/master/COPYING.
>
> Note that the standard license for GNOME docs is not GPL, which is better
> suited for code, but Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

Relevant documentation on that topic is available at
https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Guide/Licensing

Cheers,

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker & Foundation Director