Re: How to insert GPL-text into gcmd documentation

[Uwe Scholz <u scholz83 gmx de>]

Hey Petr and Alexandre,

Am Mon, 6 Feb 2017 18:42:47 +0100 schrieb 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

This was the information I was looking for. Thank you both.

Best wishes
Uwe