Rick Barnes wrote:
I was wondering why we need three licenses, 'tis such confusion we are
birthing here. But hidden in the PDL I found these perplexing words
which provide somewhat of an answer:
What do you suggest we do? Some people are giving me and other Authors
members a hard time because we are using a license that is easy to use
and widely recognized instead of the PDL, because it means that then
they can't mix our work with other people's PDL documents.
I don't want to do something that will make our life impossible, or
cause uncertainty because we don't know if we're using the license
right, or will make our work unusable outside SourceCast because Debian
won't distribute it and no one else can reuse it.
I figured that this would be a way to let those people use the work
under the stupid PDL and leave us (me and others) alone. If you have a
better suggestion, I would like to hear it. Ian's suggestion seems
simple enough. We as copyright owners can do whatever we want with our
work. And it seems to have all the advantages of the GPL/CC without the
disadvantages of the PDL.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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