Bazaar

documentation doesn't make its licence terms clear

Bug #433734 reported by Martin Pool on 2009-09-21

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Bazaar	Fix Released	High	Jonathan Riddell	Bazaar 2.4b3

Bug Description

Ben Finney in thread "Is Bazaar's document distributed under GPL?"

> I would also like to know the answer to the question you ask, that of the license terms for the Bazaar documentation; I can't find it easily at <URL:http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/en/>. The documentation source tarball <URL:http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.1.18-docs.tar.gz> doesn't contain any license grant within the tarball that I can find.

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2009-09-21: Re: Is Bazaar's document distributed under GPL?

2009/9/21 Ben Finney <email address hidden>:
> I would also like to know the answer to the question you ask, that of
> the license terms for the Bazaar documentation; I can't find it easily
> at <URL:http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/en/>. The documentation source tarball
> <URL:http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.1.18-docs.tar.gz> doesn't contain any
> license grant within the tarball that I can find.

Good point <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/433734>.

I think we should address it by appending a short GPL notice to the
end of every documentation file, like

Copyright 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Canonical Ltd. Bazaar is free
software, and you may use, modify and redistribute both Bazaar and
this document under the terms of the GNU
General Public License version 2 or later.

I think the three-paragraph header would be excessive for what are
often only a couple of pages of text.

--
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>

Ian Clatworthy (ian-clatworthy) on 2009-12-08