Licensing Problem (bug in GFDL declaration)

[pixelpapst]

Hi Varun,
I'm referencing version 0.1 of your Vala book as published on github in PDF form.
The license blob states

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with Invariant Sections being "Preface'', with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the appendix entitled "GNU Free Documentation License.''

However, your document doesn't have a section called "Preface". As is, your book doesn't have a license that any licensee could be compliant with.

Could you please re-publish with a fixed license ?

FWIW, I recommend publishing under GFDL without any invariant sections (so Debian would consider shipping this), or, even better, relicense the text unter the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License ) which is used by wikipedia and many modern Open Documentation projects like gnome-user-guide.

Thank you for your consideration,
Philipp

[vamega]

Sure thing. Wow I can't believe this is still there. I really should get
back to finishing it up. I'd gotten so involved with other things that this
just slipped away.

Varun Madiath
On Oct 27, 2013 10:46 AM, "pixelpapst" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi Varun,
I'm referencing version 0.1 of your Vala book as published on github in
PDF form.
The license blob states

Permission is granted to copy, distribute, and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with Invariant
Sections being "Preface'', with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the appendix
entitled "GNU Free Documentation License.''

However, your document doesn't have a section called "Preface". As is,
your book doesn't have a license that any licensee could be compliant with.

Could you please re-publish with a fixed license ?

FWIW, I recommend publishing under GFDL without any invariant sections (so
Debian would consider shipping this), or, even better, relicense the text
unter the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License) which is used by wikipedia and many modern Open Documentation projects
like gnome-user-guide.

Thank you for your consideration,
Philipp

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