Re: Writing NF modules October2008 edition

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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

They finally did after one votation in 2006 IIRC. Don't put too much
trust on wikipedia ;)

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