[pkg-firebird-general] Re: [resent] Licensing of firebird manpages

[Damyan Ivanov]

Hi, Daniel,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

-=| Daniel Urban,  6.02.2007 08:50 |=-
> Damyan Ivanov napisał(a):
>>
>> Are you willing to re-license these?
>>
>> The manpages are: fbmgr, fbstat, gdef, gfix, gpre and gsec.
>>
>> There are several alternatives for the new license (texts included
>> below):
>>
>> + Expat
>> + Beerware
>> + LGPL-2.1+exception; This is the license, preferred by firebird
>>   developers in case IDPL can't be used.

> No problem do change the license

Good.

> do you know the license that firebird
> team use for their docs?

I didn't know they use PDL for the docs, thanks for the pointer.

> http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/licenses-pdl.html#licenses-pdl-intro
> So maybe Public Documentation License?

PDL suffers from the same problems as MPL/IPL/IDPL - it is hard to
read and it enforces Californian law to anyone.

Not that I am against Californian law, but being governed by some law
I don't know and spending money to go there in case someone files
no-matter-how-serious claim, is something I personally would like to
avoid. In other words, MPL-derivate license makes it discouraging for
me to actually use the permission to modify etc the work.

Also, I don't see any problem with incorporating IDPL-licensed work
(firebird) with manpages licensing any of the above three licenses I
proposed. Perhaps LGPL is not the best license for a manpage, but I
have no strong feelings about it.

That said, I am by no means trying to convince you to choose a license
that I'd agree with. Choosing a license for someone's work is of
highly personal preference so I'll agree with whatever choice you make
(even "leave it GPL"). I can always sit down and spend several hours
for rewriting those manpages if I find that the disagreement by my
personal preferences and yours are so big. Of course, that would be a
waste of time, since I suspect that the end result will be not much
different.


Take care,
	dam
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