Re: [Plplot-devel] documentation license

[Rafael L. <lab...@ps...>]

* Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-08-16 08:37]:

> I am willing to stick with the old FSF documentation license that we
> currently have for our second form, but the problem is it is no longer a
> well-known license and might be confused (from its name, but not content)
> with the Gnu FDL.  Another much better known possibility is the FreeBSD
> Documentation License [...]

According to several people involved in the discussion in debian-legal (e.g.
http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html), it is recommend to use
the same license for the documentation as the program has.  This is why
people are switching from GFDL to GPLv2 (see, e.g.,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200307/msg00052.html)

In our case, since PLplot is released under the LGPL, I do not know if there
are incompatibilities in releasing the documentation under the GPL.  I will
ask this in debian-legal soon.

-- 
Rafael