Re: Old manual versions that lack licenses

Andre Klapper <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 22:17 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>   > The rewritten version is at https://help.gnome.org/users/baobab/3.14/
>   > and licensed as CC by-sa.
> 
> It's not good for a GNU manual converted to a non-GNU license.
> 
>   > The GNOME Desktop System Administration Guide is in the same
>   > situation, with oldest version as GFDL and available here:
>   >   https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/2.32/index-info.html
>   > and newest version as CC by-sa and online here:
>   >   https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/3.14/
> 
> It looks like this is a systematic trend, and it might get worse.n
> Do you know who is responsible?  What can we do about it?

The reasons for CC-BY-SA as default are given on
https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Guide/Licensing

Cheers,
andre
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