[kde-guidelines] Licenses

[Lauri Watts]

Hi folks,

We need to discuss the licensing of the new guides.   I guess I'll lay out the 
issues roughly and the authors and maintainers should probably decide for the 
best.

First, here's the rundown on the current licensing policy for KDE 
documentation (note, some of the concerns noted here are not relevant, since 
these guides are not to be distributed with the project sources.  Also note 
I'm no lawyer, that's just something I wrote and is as yet rather unreviewed 
to explain our choice of FDL.  In particular, the explanation of invariant 
sections is missing a chunk - that you only need to change our license text 
to the "with invariant sections" bit if you *use* the text marked as 
invariant)

Further points: 
* It is possible to license each *section* of documentation differently, if 
necessary.  It's much easier, from a managing your assets point of view, if 
everything is in fact licensed the same though.
* It would be extremely useful to have a list of things we might want to quote 
from, and the license terms they are available under, since this could 
influence the decision here. 

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org
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