One of Savannah's unique features is the emphasis on verifying all licenses for consistency (only free software licenses, no incompatibilities among project components) and compatibility with the GNU GPL (version 2 or later, so that Savannah projects, notably GNU projects, can easily build upon each other's code).
It is not clear what licenses we accept for documentation. In the same spirit - be able to easily share and build manuals under the GNU license - we plan to ask new projects to release documentation under a license compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License. As always, it is perfectly acceptable to dual-license the work under the GFDL and another license, if needed. This concept applies to manuals written in Texinfo, and documentation which ought to be improved into such manuals. Informal materials, FAQs, and so on can be under a license compatible with the GNU GPL or the GFDL (or both). This has been informally discussed on #savannah, without objection from the present staff and non-staff until this was actually used during a project registration, before we found the time to properly state it (we're still looking for help to review project submissions, by the way :)) If your existing Savannah project contains documentation that is not compatible with the GNU Free Documentation License, please contact us so we can better estimate the current licenses 'repartition'. We would be please to get comments at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Message posté via/par Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
