Review Request: kdoctools hard-codes the GNU FDL license and ignores dual-licensing

[Burkhard Lück]

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Ship it!


- Burkhard Lück


On Nov. 1, 2011, 3:19 a.m., Robby Stephenson wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 1, 2011, 3:19 a.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs.
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> Description
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> For documentation, the current KDE docbook customization hard-codes a link to the GNU-FDL for every <legalnotice> in the doc. While the KDE licensing policy requires documentation to be licensed under the FDL, it does not prohibit dual-licensing (or triple or whatever...). But the current docbook processing doesn't show the second license.
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> This patch maintains current behavior when the <legalnotice> element includes the link to the FDL, but falls back to normal docbook processing for legal notices which do not reference the FDL.
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> Diffs
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>   kdoctools/customization/kde-chunk.xsl 096de1b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103011/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested with Tellico's documentation, which is dual-licensed under the GNU FDL and the FreeBSD Documentation License. Also forwarded to the kde-docbook list http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-docbook&m=132004433310804&w=2
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> Thanks,
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> Robby Stephenson
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