Hi, Have you made progress regarding the re-licensing of the current grub manual under GFDL ? (with no cover text and no invariant ?)
Franklin On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:34 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:43:59PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:50, Robert Millan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:28:50PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > > > > Anyway, the best way of using texinfo is to start from examples. In our > > > > case, you can copy the manual from GRUB Legacy, and tweak it. FYI, Emacs > > > > supports texinfo very well. > > > > > > If the manual from GRUB Legacy (or a derived version under the same > > > license) is in GFDL with invariant sections or front/back cover texts, I > > > won't be able to add this in the Debian package. > > > > > > Is there a way we can get around this? GFDL is fine as far as Debian is > > > concerned, only invariant sections and front/back cover texts are a > > > problem. > > > > The GRUB manual is licensed under the traditional "as-is" term. It was only > > because GFDL hadn't been born yet when I wrote the manual, and I stopped > > working on GRUB Legacy when the FSF urged me to change the license. > > > > As the manual is not so long, and the FSF hasn't published a paper version, > > we > > can omit Invariant Sections. However, we must change the license to GFDL in > > GRUB 2, anyway. You can see more info here: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Documentation.html > > > > If the FSF wants to print it out, I will not hesitate to add Invariant > > Sections. Actually, there was a chance that a printed version would be > > published, but it was not done, because I pointed out that it had some > > incomplete chapters, so not tolerable for the payment, and I didn't make > > effort on finishing them. > > We can continue to work together in documentation untill that happens. When > it > happens, I'll have to remove the docs in Debian, and will only add them back > if > someone forks the documentation (I don't have the motivation to do this > myself, > but maybe someone else will). This doesn't preclude that someone else adds > them > to the non-free repository, but again I don't have the motivation to do this > myself. > > Please note that I don't necessarily agree with this policy; in fact I think > both sides have been overzealous on this, but it is nevertheless the policy > that > I have to abide to. > > If you think we can avoid this situation by providing documentation as part > of a non-GNU package (e.g. grub-doc), or just put it in the wiki, I'd welcome > that. > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
