[U-Boot] [RFC 0/3] uboot-doc User's Manual Generation Tool

Detlev Zundel
2009-07-30T09:59:07Z

Hi Robin,

> On Tue 28 Jul 2009 17:27, Wolfgang Denk pondered:
>> Dear John,
>>
>> in message <1248813631.3915.102.camel@johns> you wrote:
>> >
>> > It seems to me that DUTS is designed to test U-Boot and also automates
>> > the running of commands whose output can be put online in the DULG. I
>>
>> Correct. And the DULG itself is a wiki (TWiki at the moment, to be
>> converted to Foswiki ASAP) based framework which holds the "static"
>> parts of the documentation.
>
> While we are on the topics of wikis, and U-Boot docs, can we discuss the
> license?
>
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/Introduction#Section_2.1.
>
> Since it is "is not permitted to sell this document or the derivative work or
> to include it into any package or distribution that is not freely available
> to everybody."
>
> Not meaning to interpret licensing, but to me that means I can't copy/paste
> sections into end product documentation, and ship the product for a fee...

That's how it is currently, yes.

> Was that the intent?

Not really - but I'll better let Wolfgang answer that question as he
came up with the original licence text.

It is on my priority list however to assemble a list of all contributors
and ask them if they agree to relicence their contributions under the
FDL.

Cheers
Detlev

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