On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:10, Ville Skytt? wrote: > > But there's one problem with the licence: are there any non-free > > pollut^H^H^H^H^H^Hcomponents, such as cover texts, which we should know > > about? > > The Wiki is certainly welcome, but I think FDL is not a good idea; it's > incompatible with the GPL. Think including docs from the Wiki in VDR, > or vice versa. (Maybe Darren meant that)? It's probably too late to do > anything about it though. > > http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html > http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/Attitude/fdl-harmful.html > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html > Interesting links. I knew that the FDL is not the best license for this, but the german Wiki already falls under it and a translation is a derivation. There are no cover texts or other non-free components. But if the licence really bothers you and others, we can change it and start from scratch, or mark existing documents as FDL content until they are exchanged. It is an interesting point to include wiki docs into VDR, plugins, ... and concerns the english wiki more then the german. The vast amount of documents are translations by me. And till february 13 a registration was required to edit, so we know the authors. Thomas
