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

Daniel Urban daniel at sente.pl
Tue Feb 6 07:50:38 CET 2007


Damyan Ivanov napisał(a):
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> [ There was no reply to the mail from January 22nd, so I send another ]
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> Hi, Daniel,
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> Currently, firebird packages contain several manpages written by you
> that use GPLv2+ license. I believe that GPL is incompatible with
> IPL/IDPL that is used in the rest of the code.
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> Are you willing to re-license these?
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> The manpages are: fbmgr, fbstat, gdef, gfix, gpre and gsec.
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> I am not recommending IDPL, since it is a) very long and hard to
> understand; and b) includes source-of-venue clause that makes California
> the state where claims are to be settled.
>
> 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.
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> I used the Beerware for the manpages I wrote, due to its shortness and
> humorous spirit.
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> In case you don't want to re-license, please say so.
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Hello,
No problem do change the license, do you know the license that firebird 
team use for their docs?
http://www.firebirdsql.org/manual/licenses-pdl.html#licenses-pdl-intro
So maybe Public Documentation License?

with regards

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Daniel Urban
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