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Re: Mixing GPL licensed material into our documentation

 

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Paul McCullagh
<paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jun 3, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Henrik Ingo wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Paul McCullagh
>> <paul.mccullagh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Henrik,
>>>
>>> As I mentioned, I have changed the license to:
>>> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
>>>
>>> I assume this is compatible with the license of the MariaDB
>>> documentation.
>>
>> Kind of. If you ask us for advice, we would actually like you to dual
>> license: use both that CC license AND GFDL.
>
> That's OK with me. But, as far as I can tell, there is nothing stopping some
> from taking CC content, and incorporating it in a GFDL document.

Ah, it seems even the Askmonty guidelines say exactly that :-) (It is
the other way that you can't do it)

henrik
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