From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 02:16:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A541065675 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:16:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielsson.lorenzo@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B26C98FC16 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:16:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danielsson.lorenzo@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so2381643ana.13 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:16:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:reply-to:to :content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g3BDK0ebipoLSGGBVTM12UxojYPXY47SAKG0GNMMFn0=; b=JezPFhgcW3cYAI38Jr5qdJvzi2DA2eB0JqLxPcO8TNnwtL3XTJ5nlf9t7tvvSDML9v qSoGuY2l3Flrj1teod6E50/Wd0hUOaysZKHg7zfnk/dRNdIH+iIJGa+hkJEek4KPLhM7 4/95+vu4o/1kPlsdKivbfbE3LLFdNSwLdb7OI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=i+zktqZQsLwDtTMU9FoqpxYD8J+xhQN7GMOG7QzZZH2319XeFYqkjCgy0VUdf6qitZ BVtGoG2/hXNEIxZAcnjvPTPaQjnEmZFkZy18gPJ6h1tTMotlPO4vyn4lqTMoybrD173K Vq8MklIYCCGb92NtineIu7/ke9zB5oh7YAHVI= Received: by 10.100.141.5 with SMTP id o5mr5820981and.33.1217123418394; Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:50:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.211.30.234? ( [41.204.40.15]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm11001657yxq.8.2008.07.26.18.50.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:50:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lorenzo E. Danielsson" To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:50:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1217123408.20577.27.camel@etna.vulcan.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:45:00 +0000 Subject: "Modified" FreeBSD Documentation License? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danielsson.lorenzo@gmail.com List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:16:40 -0000 Hello list, First of all, I am sorry if this is the wrong list for this message. I was looking for something like freebsd-legal, but couldn't find one. I am a part of a small group of people working on some documentation, mostly related to programming. Much of it is not even related to FreeBSD at all. We have been looking through documentation licenses, and all decided that we like the FreeBSD one, because it's simple and straight-forward. We are not lawyers. We just want a simple license that grants people the right to use the documentation and to modify it. But, for certain reasons we are not able to use DocBook SGML (not that I have anything against it). Instead we will use a combination of Latex and Open Document Format (ODF). This leads me to a few questions that I hope somebody can answer. I have Googled around quite a bit, but haven't really been able to find any conclusive answers. 1. If I modify the license text to read for instance "Latex" instead of DocBook SGML, is it valid to still call the license FreeBSD Documentation License, or do I need to avoid that name? 2. Regarding the ODF documents: is it valid to consider documents written in a tool like OpenOffice.org a "source" format? 3. Suppose we go one step further and change the copyright notice to state the author's name instead of "FreeBSD Project" as well as ".. PROVIDED BY THE FREEBSD DOCUMENTATION PROJECT" to .. PROVIDED BY ", is it still valid to call the license "FreeBSD Documentation License"? I guess what I'm trying to find out is if the documentation license is "re-usable" in the same way that the BSD license is usable outside of the BSD Project itself. Does this make sense? I have zero legal background. If this is totally off-topic, could somebody point me to where I can get more information? I'm not currently on the list, so could I also be CCed on any reply? Lorenzo