[Monotone-devel] Re: re-licensing the monotone manual

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 18:42 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Currently, the main monotone manual, 'monotone.texi' in the source
> tree, is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
> Now, it turns out that this is a lousy license, that is probably not
> even DFSG-free[1].  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.  This is
> a boring and annoying change to make, which is why we've been letting
> it slide for months and months, but... it really should happen.  So.
> If you're getting this as a personal mail, it's because at some point
> you touched the monotone manual, and 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).

Yes, I am ok with this.

-- 
Timothy Brownawell