[Bf-docboard] Some edits

[Felix Rabe]

Matt Ebb wrote:
> If I save a few more copies (with earlier EPS 
> versions and different Postscript levels), would you be able to test 
> them on sketch and sodipodi?

Not me, somebody else - I have work to do (again :/ ), so I'm lacking 
the time for it.  (I have to set up that policy again: "Felix, don't 
post any email until next week!" - otherwise, I won't get done what I 
have to :-( .)

> Also, out of curiosity, how do you think the 'not-allowed-to-sell' xfig 
> license might affect us? I doubt the docboard would want to be 
> distributing xfig itself?

It is not because we cannot distribute xfig separately for money, but 
because our documentation has similar licensing (the OCL), to which I'm 
somewhat opposed to, and which might also create trouble should we want 
to sell a book version.  (People might contribute and believe that sale 
was forbidden according to the OCL.  It does not persuade me that the 
OCL should actually not say so.)  So, since the xfig team changed to a 
similar kind of licensing, I'm just curious why they would do that. 
They changed it just as far as it is still distributable with Debian, 
but it might not be Free Software anymore.

I'm currently also thinking about proposing a certain combination of 
Creative Commons licensing for what we do here, but I would probably 
need to read some of their legalese (of two or three licenses) to see 
whether they fit exactly.  At least they are terribly easy to apply (and 
surely a go in the correct direction) and I doubt I will find any 
irregularities between the easy-to-read version of one of their licenses 
and the legalese version - see http://creativecommons.org/ for more 
infos.  I just tried it out for http://mysite.iptic.com/xitnalta/ myself 
after midnight :).

Puh - my emails could be shorter (^;

cu,
Felix