[kde-guidelines] Licenses

[zander at kde.org]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:25:11PM +0200, Lauri Watts wrote:
> 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

Since Frans answered I got reminded that I was kind of expecting an email from
you with a "Oops, now _with_ attachment"...

:)
-- 
Thomas Zander
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