[scribus] ANNOUNCEMENT: Scribus - The Official Manual is now available for sale!

Philipp Klaus Krause pkk at spth.de
Sun Dec 7 11:28:58 CET 2008


Allen McBride schrieb:
> I agree with Jurgen; the manual is probably great work, and I hope it
> makes money both for the authors and for Scribus.  But since this book
> is the "official manual," isn't it an integral part of the project?  Can
> Scribus really be considered FOSS if its official documentation is
> closed?  If yes, great.  If not, it doesn't bother me, and I'm hardly
> involved in the project so I'd have little cause to complain if it did. 
> But I am curious.
> 
> --Allen

Well, many free projects have manuals covered by the GFDL, a problematic
license, which is considered non-free e.g. by Debian if invariant
sections exist in the work.

Philipp






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