Re: [Firebird-docs] Licenses (was: Mac OSX HOWTO)

[Philippe M. <mak...@a6...>]

Hi Paul,
Le 07/01/2005 21:06, Paul Vinkenoog a dit :
> 
> But it would be practical if we agreed on a single licence. People who
> want to reuse, alter or extend our docs would only have to understand
> that one licence then. They wouldn't have to find out the specifics
> for every single doc or docwriter/translator.
That's make sense
> 
> Our coders have agreed to use the IDPL, which you can find here:
> 
>   http://firebird.sourceforge.net/index.php?op=doc&id=idpl
> 
> The QuickStartGuide is also released under that licence.
I don't remeber it, is it specify somewhere ?

> Some articles in the IDPL look a bit silly for documentation, and
> there's also a built-in special protection against using names that
> Mozilla doesn't want you to use (which can't be removed because the
> IDPL is derived from the Mozilla PL).
> 
> Still, unless we come up with an Open Source documentation licence
> real soon, maybe we should decide to use the IDPL for our docs too?
> 
> Any suggestions?
the GNU Free Documentation License ? <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html>