Re: [Plplot-devel] documentation license

[<jc...@fe...>]

On Saturday 16 August 2003 22:04, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
| On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| > * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2003-08-16 11:00]:
| > > Thus, I suggest you have a serious look at the FreeBSD DL to see
| > > whether it will fulfill our requirements.  If you find some
| > > problem with it, then let's just stick with the current second
| > > form, i.e., the old FSF DL.
| >
| > In that case, I would vote for the current second form (FSF DL)
| > complemented by a no-warranty clause, as you suggested earlier in
| > this thread.  What about this (notice that I added a mention to
| > "XML sources and derived formats"; please tell me if this is
| > inappropriate/unnecessary):
| >
| >     Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
| > this manual (either the XML sources or any derived format) provided
| > the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on
| > all copies.
| >
| >     Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions
| > of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided
| > that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the
| > terms of a permission notice identical to this one.
| >
| >     Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of
| > this manual into another language, under the above conditions for
| > modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated
| > in a translation approved by the authors.
| >
| >     This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be
| > useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
| > of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
|
| Those changes "(either the XML sources or any derived format)" and
| the addition of the no-warranty clause are excellent improvements and
| absolutely fine with me.
|
| So to wrap this up we need two things from Joao:
|
| (a) agree to the above changes.
|
| (b) agree that these documentation license conditions are in accord
| with what Geoffrey and Maurice have asked for.

I agree with everything you want :)
Yes, I'm on vacations :)

Joao :)

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| Alan
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