Currently, the main monotone manual, 'monotone.texi' in the source
tree, is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL).
Now, it turns out that this is a lousy license, that is probably not
even DFSG-free[1]. It certainly has a whole host of obnoxious
practical problems; in particular, it is never possible to move text
from code into documentation, or vice-versa -- the GFDL and GPL are
entirely incompatible licenses.
So we want to change the license on monotone.texi to be GPL. This is
a boring and annoying change to make, which is why we've been letting
it slide for months and months, but... it really should happen. So.
If you're getting this as a personal mail, it's because at some point
you touched the monotone manual, and I ask you:
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL, CC'ING address@hidden, AND
SAY THAT YOU ARE FINE WITH YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO monotone.texi BEING
RELEASED UNDER THE GPL (v2 or later).