From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Feb 5 2:33:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from 217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es (217-126-145-95.uc.nombres.ttd.es [217.126.145.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A4637B41C for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 02:33:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.ea4els.ampr.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A775F3D75 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:33:24 +0100 (CET) From: Simon J Mudd To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Documentation licenses - what choices do I have? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, This may be inappropriate for this list, but I am not sure where else to ask and guess the people here at least know the options I have. I'm writing a document which initially I've setup a copyright/license which is basically identical to what I've seen in various RFCs. This is a document which I want to extend potentially to a wide audience. I've been criticised for the current copyright and am looking at the alternatives: FDL being one and being if I'm not mistaken a GPL-style license tailored for documentation. What type of license do FreeBSD users recommend for using with FreeBSD and what other options might be appropriate? I'm don't want to start up a flame war, I simply don't know where to look for a document-licensing-howto so that I can compare the different terms and then decide which is right for me. Thanks for any pointers regarding this subject. Simon -- Simon J Mudd, Tel: +34-91-408 4878, Mobile: +34-605-085 219 Madrid, Spain. email: sjmudd@pobox.com, Postfix RPM Packager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message