I demand that Thomas Wehrspann may or may not have written...

finally, I can announce the official launch of the english VDR wiki: http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page the english counterpart of the german VDR wiki at http://www.vdr-wiki.de.

Long overdue, if you ask me :-)

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?

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:10, Ville Skyttä wrote:

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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

I demand that Thomas Wehrspann may or may not have written...

On Tuesday 15 February 2005 08:10, Ville Skyttä wrote:

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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.

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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.

This is good...

I'm now waiting for a cover text which says that there are no cover texts. ;-)

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.

Yes. The latter seems like the better choice for reasons of practicality.

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The vast amount of documents are translations by me. And till february 13 a registration was required to edit, so we know the authors.

I made a few small changes, mostly grammatical cleanups, yesterday. Permission to relicense those changes under the GPL is granted, subject to others' agreement.