[scribus-dev] online docs

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/08/2009 06:37 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
>    
>> Am Dienstag, 8. September 2009 11:47:06 schrieb Alexandre Prokoudine:
>>      
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, a.l.e wrote:
>>>        
>>>> afaik, due to the license choosen, it's not possible to include the
>>>> scribus official doc in debian and in other radical free distributions...
>>>> i would be happy if somebody can prove me wrong on this.
>>>>          
>>> Was the matter actually raised by Debian team?
>>>        
>> Yes, because the documentation is under the FDL, which is considered non-free
>> by Debian.
>>      
> Well, I'm personally fine with any free license that allows free
> redistribution, modification and translation. I think I'll prepare a
> patch for intro tutorial and layers chapter anyway and just in case
> you have my "yes" to relicense subsmission to anything like CC.
>    
All of these can be relatively moot issues. For example, Christoph 
suggested inclusion of the Working with... series. This would require a 
serious rewrite to the extent that I don't think that one could 
seriously argue any copyright issue.

While I might object to someone taking my wiki articles and compiling 
them in some book of theirs (and my objection could be easily assuaged 
by them making a monetary contribution to the Scribus project), one can 
easily reword some information and make it a unique work. One of the 
background issues I feel strongly about when I named my website 
infoisfree.com is that you cannot (or should not be able to) copyright 
information, data, and knowledge. These will find a way to escape from 
your grasp.

We mainly have to have a copyright license that allows any distro some 
measure of comfort.

Greg