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Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min
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Asher Gordon |
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Subject: |
Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min |
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Date: |
Sat, 16 May 2020 17:00:49 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
I would like to use the gendocs.sh script to generate documentation for
my package.¹ However, since my package is not part of the GNU project,
there are naturally some changes I would like to make to the gendocs
template (specifically, gendocs_template_min). Here are the specific
changes I would like to make:
--- gendocs_template_min.gnulib
+++ gendocs_template_min
@@ -4,23 +4,20 @@
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
<head>
-<title>%%TITLE%% - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title>
+<title>%%TITLE%% - Documentation</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content='text/html; charset=utf-8' />
-<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/gnu.css" />
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../mu.css" />
</head>
<body>
<h3>%%TITLE%%</h3>
-<address>Free Software Foundation</address>
+<address>
+ Asher Gordon
+ <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>
+</address>
<address>last updated %%DATE%%</address>
-<p>
-<a href="/graphics/gnu-head.jpg">
- <img src="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
- alt=" [image of the head of a GNU] " width="129" height="122"/>
-</a>
-</p>
<hr />
<p>This manual (%%PACKAGE%%) is available in the following formats:</p>
@@ -73,21 +70,12 @@
<div id="footer" class="copyright">
-<p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to
-<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.
-There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a>
-the FSF. Broken links and other corrections or suggestions can be sent
-to <a href="mailto:%%EMAIL%%";><%%EMAIL%%></a>.</p>
-</div>
-
<p>Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</p>
<p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
-<!--#include virtual="/server/bottom-notes.html" -->
-
</div>
</body>
</html>
(maintain) Invoking gendocs.sh says: "(Feel free to modify the generic
template for your own purposes.)" However, gendocs_template_min is
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United
States License. To quote the license text:
The above rights include the right to make such modifications as are
technically necessary to exercise the rights in other media and
formats, but otherwise *you have no rights to make Derivative
Works*.
(Emphasis added.) So this seems to be a contradiction.
Also, I understand the FSF would want to license works which convey
their opinions under the CC BY-ND 3.0 US or similar licenses, but
gendocs_template_min is certainly not such a work, and using such a
license seems to me to be a mistake.
These issues also apply to gendocs_template, since that is under the
same license.
Since this is a licensing issue, I've CC'd address@hidden since they
might have people who understand this stuff better.
Thanks,
Asher
Footnotes:
¹ https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/libmu
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