On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > Does the COPYING file apply to all the doc/ documentation that don't have > any license in them? > > For example, I don't see any republishing or reuse license for > lib/doc/Customization.lyx.
It is a good question. When the documentation was written, the concept of licenses for documentation was not really crystalised yet. So, the question was never really asked and thus never answered. I believe that a fair interpretation of intent is that the documentation is GPL. > I want to test a print-on-demand service. I want to submit the LyX > documentation in a single PDF format for a single book. Is this okay? I belive that would be ok, but you might try to ask John Weiss who is the main author of the documentation, and as such he would be the main copyright holder, although many, many people have contributed, including Matthias Ettrich who wrote the initial documentation on which everything is based. I believe he would be the person that defined the original license, although it was implicit. See Credits for more info on contributors. My personal oppinion is that a printed version of LyX documentation would be a very welcome contribution to the community. A book with a CD in it would definately be nice, especially if some of the profits were donated to the LyX meeting sponsoring fund. Regards, Asger Ottar Alstrup
