Documentation licence

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On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 11:14:32 UTC, ANtlord wrote:
> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:24:34 UTC, tetyys wrote:
>> On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 10:10:14 UTC, ANtlord wrote:
>>> Hello! I use service devdocs.io for some technologies. And I 
>>> think that I able to add D to this service. I've read the 
>>> project's wiki 
>>> (https://github.com/Thibaut/devdocs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) and see the next:
>>>
>>> Important: the documentation's license must permit 
>>> alteration, redistribution and commercial use, and the 
>>> documented software must be released under an open source 
>>> license.
>>>
>>> Due to this I get the question. Do the licence of D's 
>>> documentaion and the licence of D allow to add the D's 
>>> library documentation to devdocs.io?
>>>
>>> Thanks. Sorry if my english is not clear.
>>
>> Well as phobos source code comments is the documentation for 
>> standard library and it's licensed under Boost license 
>> (https://github.com/dlang/phobos/blob/master/LICENSE_1_0.txt), 
>> I think yes.
>
> Ok. Also I see it on the page 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-source_software_licenses
>
> I hope it will not block me to contribute D's docs. Thanks a 
> lot!

The Boost license is actually quite readable by humans (see 
below).

Please let us know if you run into any problems with the 
integration. Devdocs integration is on our radar [1], but time is 
inherently limited :/
-> thanks a lot for pushing this and we are more than happy to 
help if you run into troubles.

[1] https://trello.com/c/kbB0yIdE/112-devdocsio-integration

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