[Monotone-devel] Re-licensing the monotone manual - second query

[Zack Weinberg]

In February, Nathaniel requested that all contributors to the manual
agree to relicense their contributions under the GPL (>=2) instead of
the GNU FDL.[1]   I will recap his reasons:

> Now, it turns out that [the FDL] is a lousy license, that is probably not
> even DFSG-free[2].  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.

The FSF has issued revisions to both GPL and GFDL since then, but it
is my impression that these revisions solved neither the GFDL's
freeness issues nor its incompatibility with the GPL, and going GPLv3
is not something I would propose right now, anyway.

I'm interested in bringing the command-reference part of the manual in
sync with the --help texts, so I'd like to pick up the ball on GPLing
the manual.  Almost everyone who has ever changed the manual has
agreed to this, but there are a few people who haven't.

If you are getting this as a direct mail instead of via the list, then
you made more than a couple lines' worth of changes to the monotone
manual at one time or another, but I do not know if you have agreed to
relicensing. [3]  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).

Thank you,
zw

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.monotone.devel/10115
[2] http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml
[3] For reference, here is my list of people who have modified the manual:

* responded affirmatively to Nathaniel's original query:

   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden aka address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden aka address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden

* not queried in February, but verbally assented at mtn summit

   address@hidden aka address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden aka address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden
   address@hidden

* njs queried; no answer; small but IMO copyrightable contributions

   address@hidden
        one short but nontrivial patch
        c37bb9a142aa6668ab4283a63033817c4be072e0

   address@hidden
        one fairly long patch
        7690fe0a53aed8fb23923096cb4ae268b9eda3f2

* not queried previously, but IMO copyrightable contributions:

   address@hidden
   address@hidden
        Documentation of basic_io inventory; clearly copyrightable.

   address@hidden aka address@hidden
        Bunch of small, editorial changes, but the aggregate is big enough that 
he may
        have a copyright interest.
        646439266654ad1c85075788847a1d120442a028
        991112cf3ed5c3f3e1bc3f92657e9950f5804c39
        2684e73f2ac49b377329f53da7d66931575fa672
        dd1db3aa90cb7dba7b0abdf99b8ff1f8ea5ac9e4
        5af39f81d849a70de81879efaa303fbe9f5a03d5
        250f5fe22dcfc2be011a9b55824d1eec91f2b302
        9eee564abe3da80c748428d8584919d63c38b23b
        24b7031dbf079a5da5fb353a3cbdb87df331f9dd

 * not queried; contributions are IMO not copyrightable

   address@hidden
        two-line change documenting a subcommand
        261a1dd0acf065381d27f4c10ee609cb25b70aa8

   address@hidden
        three patches; typo fixes and use of IANA-reserved
        example domain names
        d64ee74bbafc09497d70c169667ae960171a5fcc
        8975520d4b2c73065004cb9d21990885b391d36c
        eb8b5710e3720d4fb4ee3ae573aacc3b629ae1a3

   address@hidden
        one patch; change of quoting conventions
        fcd914bd694bbcc6d0fca080ac4c8132f78f2c2f

   address@hidden
        one patch; corrected "cat revision" to "automate get_revision"
        e92a79a9a56076a4ead5013c29fb705a3c4de719

   address@hidden
        signed a merge rev involving the manual, but did not
        change the manual personally
        8abd5712749648b2232cc4dfa549ce11b627f679