[Monotone-devel] Re: Re-licensing the monotone manual - second query

[William Uther]

I'm happy with any and all my monotone contributions under the GPL v2  
or GFDL (including contributions to monotone.texi) being released  
under the GPL v2 or later.

Be well,

Will       :-}

On 09/11/2007, at 4:10 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> In February, Nathaniel requested that all contributors to the manual
> agree to relicense their contributions under the GPL (>=2) instead of
> the GNU FDL.[1]   I will recap his reasons:
>
> > Now, it turns out that [the FDL] is a lousy license, that is  
> > probably not
> > even DFSG-free[2].  It certainly has a whole host of obnoxious
> > practical problems; in particular, it is never possible to move text
> > from code into documentation, or vice-versa -- the GFDL and GPL are
> > entirely incompatible licenses.
> > So we want to change the license on monotone.texi to be GPL.
>
> The FSF has issued revisions to both GPL and GFDL since then, but it
> is my impression that these revisions solved neither the GFDL's
> freeness issues nor its incompatibility with the GPL, and going GPLv3
> is not something I would propose right now, anyway.
>
> I'm interested in bringing the command-reference part of the manual in
> sync with the --help texts, so I'd like to pick up the ball on GPLing
> the manual.  Almost everyone who has ever changed the manual has
> agreed to this, but there are a few people who haven't.
>
> If you are getting this as a direct mail instead of via the list, then
> you made more than a couple lines' worth of changes to the monotone
> manual at one time or another, but I do not know if you have agreed to
> relicensing. [3]  I ask you:
>
>  PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CC'ING address@hidden, AND
>  SAY THAT YOU ARE FINE WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO monotone.texi BEING
>  RELEASED UNDER THE GPL (v2 or later).
>
> Thank you,
> zw
>
> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/10115
> [2] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
> [3] For reference, here is my list of people who have modified the  
> manual:
>
> * responded affirmatively to Nathaniel's original query:
>
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden aka address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden aka address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>
> * not queried in February, but verbally assented at mtn summit
>
>   address@hidden aka address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden aka address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>
> * njs queried; no answer; small but IMO copyrightable contributions
>
>   address@hidden
>         one short but nontrivial patch
>         c37bb9a142aa6668ab4283a63033817c4be072e0
>
>   address@hidden
>         one fairly long patch
>         7690fe0a53aed8fb23923096cb4ae268b9eda3f2
>
> * not queried previously, but IMO copyrightable contributions:
>
>   address@hidden
>   address@hidden
>         Documentation of basic_io inventory; clearly copyrightable.
>
>   address@hidden aka address@hidden
> 	Bunch of small, editorial changes, but the aggregate is big enough  
> that he may
>         have a copyright interest.
>         646439266654ad1c85075788847a1d120442a028
>         991112cf3ed5c3f3e1bc3f92657e9950f5804c39
>         2684e73f2ac49b377329f53da7d66931575fa672
>         dd1db3aa90cb7dba7b0abdf99b8ff1f8ea5ac9e4
>         5af39f81d849a70de81879efaa303fbe9f5a03d5
>         250f5fe22dcfc2be011a9b55824d1eec91f2b302
>         9eee564abe3da80c748428d8584919d63c38b23b
>         24b7031dbf079a5da5fb353a3cbdb87df331f9dd
>
> * not queried; contributions are IMO not copyrightable
>
>   address@hidden
>         two-line change documenting a subcommand
>         261a1dd0acf065381d27f4c10ee609cb25b70aa8
>
>   address@hidden
>         three patches; typo fixes and use of IANA-reserved
>         example domain names
>         d64ee74bbafc09497d70c169667ae960171a5fcc
>         8975520d4b2c73065004cb9d21990885b391d36c
>         eb8b5710e3720d4fb4ee3ae573aacc3b629ae1a3
>
>   address@hidden
>         one patch; change of quoting conventions
>         fcd914bd694bbcc6d0fca080ac4c8132f78f2c2f
>
>   address@hidden
>         one patch; corrected "cat revision" to "automate get_revision"
>         e92a79a9a56076a4ead5013c29fb705a3c4de719
>
>   address@hidden
>         signed a merge rev involving the manual, but did not
>         change the manual personally
>         8abd5712749648b2232cc4dfa549ce11b627f679