John Devereux wrote:
Anybody who is willing and able to help out in any way is very much invited to join in. The manual is to be distributed under the GNU Free Document License so that it can borrow text from the wiki, and also so that it can be included in free TeX distributions (like TeX Live).
the last of my worries since their rules might change anyway (things like 'include source' which then might include sources of sources of sources where in practice a pdf would be fine too
I hope this means it can be part of Debian - I gather this implies not having any "invariant sections": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License#Invariant_sectio...
the usual licencing mess ... personally i think that we should not be too strict (i.e. no enless pages with unreadable licence texts when a url can do) and no restrictions on using snippets other than a simple reference to the original (unless one is part of the authoring team since it makes no sense to refer to your own stuff) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------