Well, IANAL, nor am I a fanatic about this. I don't want this to become a major issue. But I will make a few comments:
CopyLeft is a much more general term. To say that something is Copyleft does not necessarily mean that it's compatible with GFDL.
I suppose we could use this list as "fair use". I suppose there may be some question as to whether such a list is copyrightable anyway. However, including a readme that specifically states that commercial redistribution is not allowed does not sound like a good idea to me.
Of course, if we get documented express permission, then that solves all problems. We'd better make sure the copyright holder understands GFDL.
-Rich
--- Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
It seems that we just went through this over the list of articles in the Columbia Encyclopedia, and decided that it was OK. This list is even less risky. Ec
Magnus Manske wrote:
Well, we can take this either by the letter: "If you have any use for them, please use
them.".
Did so. Or, we can use it in the way it appears to
be ment, which
seems to be indicated quite well by the word
"copyleft".
Anyway, I wrote the original author a mail and
asked for his explicit
permission, to mail to me or to this list.
Magnus
Rich Holton wrote:
IANAL, but it sounds to me like this is
incompatible
with GFDL, since this would only allow
redistribution
free of charge. Under GFDL, the documentation may
be
sold.
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