GPLv3/L8R -- what about the texi files?
Mats Lidell writes:
Hi,
I'm lost when it comes to the documentation. I know there has been
some debate about it. What copyright the docs shall have in order to
be as useful as possible.
Please distinguish between "copyright" and "permission". The
copyright notice is a statement of ownership and (in theory, though
not in American practice) when the rights expire. We should be
updating those regularly when we change the files. You should not be
changing any copyright notices in the GPLv3 branch.
What we are doing now is changing the permissions notice, which states
the license terms.
The problem is what options do we have if any? In short: What must
we
do to get the various docs up to GPLv3 or later standards?
For the info files, nothing. Those files are incompatible with the
GPL and will be forever because there is no provision for changing the
license in them at all. Even if we can get permission to change the
license from all authors, most likely we would want to change to the
FDL, not GPL, so that we can merge with GNU docs under the FDL (which
is now and most likely will forever be incompatible with the GPL).
For the docs in etc/ (and a couple of files in the root: PROBLEMS,
INSTALL, README), add the standard notice. COPYING is the GPL itself;
replace that with GPLv3, exactly as distributed by the FSF. I'm not
sure what to do about ChangeLogs. What does the FSF do?
What else is there?
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