Re: Writing NF modules October2008 edition

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On Thursday 2008-10-16 08:06, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> I have updated the e-book “Writing your own Netfilter modules” to this 
>> October's version. What's new? Featurewise, the API changes that have 
>> gone into net-next-2.6.28 are now mentioned. The work is now available 
>> under CC 3 too, with some extra clauses that have been suggested during 
>> talking to you at NFWS.
>> 
>> http://jengelh.medozas.de/documents/Netfilter_Modules.pdf
>> (.lyx for source)
>> 
>> I would like interested parties and coreteam to give a glance over this 
>> for any comments, formatting errors, spellos or disagreements with the 
>> statements provided in the book. Especially section 5.6/5.7 is missing 
>> checksumming which has been a hard brick even for me.
>
>Thank you Jan, this is a nice effort since we lack of updated documentation.
>
>BTW, just one suggestion in terms of licensing. Why not use FDL instead
>for licensing? Debian cannot distribute this documentation, in case that
>they want to, with the current license AFAIK. Well, licensing is
>something personal, I'm also fine with CC in any case.

Too bad for Debian, but the NC clause I consider elementary. And I do 
not see how that interferes with commercial use — remember Walnut Creek 
CDROM (cdrom.com).

But it seems like Debian does not the GFDL so much either — first 
paragraph of “Criticism of the GFDL” on 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFDL
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