From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 21:53:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 732BC16A724 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 21:53:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2433D44217 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 19:07:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD4D5D3A; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:07:02 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pWQXY6dSGq7n; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:06:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-201-170.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.201.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB175D1A; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 15:06:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44887553.4020407@mac.com> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:06:59 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gorgonite@freesurf.fr References: <58003.147.250.1.2.1149777302.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> In-Reply-To: <58003.147.250.1.2.1149777302.squirrel@arlette.freesurf.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: documentation licence X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 21:53:14 -0000 Gorgonite wrote: > Hello Hi... > I've already your licence for the documentation. > http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-doc-license.html > > Unfortunately, I don't understand very well that I can do with it... The license says you may "redistribute and use" the FreeBSD documentation. > I've written for me a more simple documentation about the use of gvinum, and > I would like to put it on my website, with a licence such as the FDL You can write your own documentation and put it under any license you want. > In this documentation, some pictures are taken from your documentation... > may it cause an issue ? (Of coursen, I can do other picture myself...) Several Linux projects have used some parts of the FreeBSD documentation as a starting point, and that's OK. Of course, they continued to give credit to the FreeBSD original, and the materials which came from FreeBSD are still under the BSD license, not anything else. Nothing in the FreeBSD license gives you the right to relicense the FreeBSD materials under other terms, although creating a compilation of materials is fine so long as the licenses are compatible. -- -Chuck