I think the book is aleady done :-)

[John Hornbeck]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:22 +0800, Chua Wen Kiat wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 14:22 -0600, John Hornbeck wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 02:12 +0800, Chua Wen Kiat wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 18:18 +0100, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > > 
> > > > let's not make too much out of the license problem right now. We are
> > > > working to fixing up the license on the ubuntu-site. When that is done
> > > > we can go and talk to the guy and *ask* why he licensed it like this.
> > > > It might be he just has not thought about it.
> > > > It is nice people write about Ubuntu and it is really quite nice.
> > > > Let's not flame him. If we can solve all this in a friendly way then
> > > > that is much preferable.
> > > > 
> > > > greets all from Barcelona,
> > > > 
> > > > AP
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I'm the author of the guide. Just came across this thread.
> > > 
> > > What license problem am I facing? I seriously have no idea... Plz let me
> > > know before I caused myself any problems.
> > > 
> > 
> > The main problem people will have with your guide is that unless they
> > use the entire guide how it is, they cannot work with it.  It would be
> > nice to use what you have and add to it to create alot better docs for
> > Ubuntu.  We are currently working on a Ubuntu User Guide and it would be
> > nice to use alot of your work to help us, but as you do not want any of
> > it used unless all is used just how it is, we have to reinvent the
> > wheel.  The main thing with OpenSource and FreeSoftware is that people
> > can take pieces of works and add the pieces they like to their own work
> > so they do not have to start from scratch on something that has already
> > been done(I hope I said that right).  It would be nice if we could use
> > pieces of your guide into ours and mix our stuff in and than have great
> > docs when Hoary is released, than also you can use our stuff back and we
> > would have a great amount of docs to work with.  Please consider letting
> > us use pieces of your docs, and you will get credit for it, but we would
> > add alot and even change some things. Also remember that you can use our
> > docs with your stuff, but under your license right now you cannot mix
> > ours in with yours because ours is freely redistrubutable(Is that a
> > word).  Please consider.
> > 
> > John Hornbeck
> > Ubuntu Doc Team
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Dear John,
> 
> Sorry for the licensing issue.
> 
> Now I understand. Ok i'll remove the line in the next release. I didn't
> think there was a license matter. Idea was to let people have it in
> whole and they can do whatever they want with it, just leave a little
> credit to the author that's all.
> 
> How would you suggest I should write the licensing part? I have no
> problem for others to use/modify it. (The disclaimer was actually cut
> and paste from elsewhere)
> 
I would suggest the gpl or lgpl license for your doc.  Mainly the gpl
though that way anyone can use it for any reason, and they will still
give you credit.

I will start migrating your data over into our guide and than start
posting the work as it emerges.

John
> Best Regards,
> Chua Wen Kiat
> 
>