Permission to use material in Gnome

[Matthew Flaschen]

Matthew East wrote:
> But - we need to give our permission to relicense this material under
> the license Gnome uses (GFDL). Does anyone have any objections to that?

It looks like the project used to have a dual CC-BY-SA , GFDL license.
Thus, the old version of this document is still under the GFDL, if it
comes to that.

I'm curious about why the Doc Team is reportedly
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/License) switching to
CC-BY-SA alone. I have never heard of a major project using this alone
for documentation.  The GFDL, and even GPL, are much more common.  GNU
for instance specifically warns against this license for docs.

> I also have a selfish reason for doing this - I'd like to use the
> aforementioned section as a standalone document in our help system :)

Why wouldn't CC-BY-SA allow that?

Finally, wouldn't KDE also benefit from the Kubuntu version of this?
Almost all of this applies to them equally.

Matt Flaschen

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