Move manual to GNU FDL (Free Documentation License)

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GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

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Move manual to GNU FDL (Free Documentation License) #47

Open aspiers opened 5 years ago

aspiers commented 5 years ago

Just found https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Documentation.html#License-Notices-for-Documentation and then discovered this TODO which led me to find some ancient email:

[Stow-devel] RFC: moving to GPL v3 and FDL 1.3
a private conversation from Dec 2011 with Karl Berry about needing permission from existing copyright holders on the manual to change it to FDL.

See also #44 (Apply GPL v3 to all files).

aspiers commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately git shortlog -s -e -- doc doesn't gives us a useful list of people to obtain permission from, because the git history doesn't go back far enough :-(