From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 27 19:35:39 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 DC8201065677 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFA78FC3B for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so129976uge.37 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:35:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.234.8 with SMTP id g8mr1528053ugh.43.1217185632530; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.18 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a7894eb0807271207g196ad89bt4a41b9613eec5280@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:07:12 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" To: danielsson.lorenzo@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1217123408.20577.27.camel@etna.vulcan.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1217123408.20577.27.camel@etna.vulcan.net> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, Nik Clayton Subject: Re: "Modified" FreeBSD Documentation License? 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: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:35:40 -0000 On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Lorenzo E. Danielsson wrote: > 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? I'm not a lawyer, but I think that will be fine. CCing Nik Clayton who setup a lot of our earlier infrastructure for stuff like this. > 2. Regarding the ODF documents: is it valid to consider documents > written in a tool like OpenOffice.org a "source" format? Yea if one can edit that and produce output formats then it is 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"? Where are you going to name the license this? You might just say "All of our work is licensed under a modified FreeBSD Documentation License. See the header to individual files for the license terms." > 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. I would think that would be fine. - Murray