Rewriting Manifesto/Publishing LDP Documents

PUBLISHING LDP DOCUMENTS

If you're a publishing company interested in distributing any of the LDP documents, read on.

By the license requirements given previously, anyone is allowed to publish and distribute verbatim copies of the Linux Documentation Project documents. You don't need our explicit permission for this. However, if you would like to distribute a translation or derivative work based on any of the LDP documents, you may need to obtain permission from the author, in writing, before doing so, if the license requires that.

You may, of course, sell the LDP documents for profit. We encourage you to do so. Keep in mind, however, that because the LDP documents are freely distributable, anyone may make copies and distribute them. Thus the parts of a book which may be freely copied should be separated (and identified) in such a manner as to facilitate copying them without infringing on the copyright of other material.

We do not require you to pay royalties from any profit earned by selling LDP documents. However, we would like to suggest that if you do sell LDP documents for profit, that you either offer the author royalties, or donate a portion of your earnings to the author, the LDP as a whole, or to the Linux development community. You may also wish to send one or more free copies of the LDP documents that you are distributing to the authors. Your show of support for the LDP and the Linux community will be very much appreciated.

We would like to be informed of any plans to publish or distribute LDP documents, just so we know how they're becoming available. If you are publishing or planning to publish any LDP documents, please subscribe to the LDP general discussion list at discuss@en.tldp.org or send mail to feedback@en.tldp.org. It's nice to know who's doing what.

We encourage Linux software distributors to distribute the LDP documents on CDs with their software. The LDP documents are intended to be used as "official" Linux documentation, and we are glad to see distributors bundling the LDP documents with the software.