From kde-licensing  Sat Jul 03 14:14:22 2004
From: "Kevin Sproul" <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 14:14:22 +0000
To: kde-licensing
Subject: Re: Re: Other included files
Message-Id: <1088864062.d75da37cforge () myrealbox ! com>
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We normaly use the Free Documentation License.  Here is the link and the Google Cache. (gnu.org is down right now)
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:IMCBWu0yHEIJ:www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html+Free+Documentation+License&hl=en

Or you can just use the GPL. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Kaper <cap@capsi.com>
To: Randy Atractivo <blue_black_ballpen@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 06:21:55 +0200
Subject: Re: Other included files

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 03:18:27AM +0100, Randy Atractivo wrote:
> Since GNU General Public License(GPL) is for the source code, it does not
> cover the document file,right or wrong? Do it need a separate license?
> What is the counterpart(usually used) of GPL for the documentation?

You could license documentation under the GPL, but the GNU FDL (Free
Documentation License) is usually more appropriate (and used for KDE
documentation as well). See:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html

Regards,

Rob
-- 
Rob Kaper     | "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had
cap@capsi.com | better learn baseball" -- Jacques Barzun



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