license of enfuse-focus-stacking.{texi,info}

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi again,

The files doc/enfuse-focus-stacking.{texi,info} in enblend do not
contain any license information but a copyright holder (Dr. Christoph L.
Spiel) only. This, again, makes enblend non-redistributable as we're
missing any terms of use, redistribution, etc.

All other documentation in enblend is released under the GNU Free
Documentation License (without invariant sections - which is an
important detail in Debian as it would else be considered non-free). I'd
assume that enfuse-focus-stacking is supposed to be released under that
license as well but this has to be specified in the .text / .info files.
I'd really appreciate if you would clarify that.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers,
Sebastian

PS: As a side-note: To cleanly apply the GNU FDL to some piece of text,
the license requires you to add a copyright and license notice as
specified in section "How to use this License for your documents" of
the license. When you're at it, it would be nice if you'd add that
as well.

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[cspiel]

Sebastian -

Sebastian Harl wrote:
> The files doc/enfuse-focus-stacking.{texi,info} in enblend do not
> contain any license information but a copyright holder
> (Dr. Christoph L. Spiel) only. This, again, makes enblend
> non-redistributable as we're missing any terms of use,
> redistribution, etc.

Well, the file originally was meant as an appetizer for Andrew
to make him inclined to document Enblend and Enfuse using the Texinfo
format -- someday, in the distant future. I expected a longer
discussion
or maybe even a rejection. Instead, Andrew, being an extremely nice
person, immediately included my contribution. Half-baked as it was.

The file will (probably) be superseded in the next version of
Enblend/Enfuse by a complete rewrite of the Enblend and Enfuse
manual pages. In fact, there will be a "Reference- and User-Guide"
for each program. And "enfuse-focus-stacking" will become a part
of the Enfuse documentation.

> All other documentation in enblend is released under the GNU Free
> Documentation License (without invariant sections - which is an
> important detail in Debian as it would else be considered
> non-free). I'd assume that enfuse-focus-stacking is supposed to be
> released under that license as well but this has to be specified in
> the .text / .info files. I'd really appreciate if you would clarify
> that.

Yes, "enfuse-focus-stacking" is intended to be released under
GNU FDL. I just sent the necessary patch to Andrew.


HTH
/chris

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:25:48AM -0700, cspiel wrote:
> Sebastian Harl wrote:
> The file will (probably) be superseded in the next version of
> Enblend/Enfuse by a complete rewrite of the Enblend and Enfuse
> manual pages. In fact, there will be a "Reference- and User-Guide"
> for each program. And "enfuse-focus-stacking" will become a part
> of the Enfuse documentation.

Cool - sounds good! :-)

> > All other documentation in enblend is released under the GNU Free
> > Documentation License (without invariant sections - which is an
> > important detail in Debian as it would else be considered
> > non-free). I'd assume that enfuse-focus-stacking is supposed to be
> > released under that license as well but this has to be specified in
> > the .text / .info files. I'd really appreciate if you would clarify
> > that.
>
> Yes, "enfuse-focus-stacking" is intended to be released under
> GNU FDL. I just sent the necessary patch to Andrew.

Thanks again for clarifying that!

Cheers,
Sebastian