On Monday 28 April 2008 16:09, Zach wrote:
> I do not, however, see any explicit note in the PDF file that says that the
> _documentation_ is released under the GPL (only with regards to the
> source). Also since Maxima/Macsyma has been released under several
> licenses in the past, including non-free ones, I believe that it is
> possible (though unlikely?) that this document is not GPL'd even if
> previous manuals were.
>
> The license and `freeness' of the documentation would be a good thing to
> clear up.
Documentation should be released under the FDL (not GPL).
And you're right: it's still based on the DOE-MACSYMA documentation, and it
seems that William Schelter obtained permission to release only the
DOE-MACSYMA source code under the GPL, but not its reference manual. There
may be some legal issues with moving to FDL.
--
Alexey Beshenov <al at beshenov.ru>
http://beshenov.ru/
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