Quoting Branden Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The "simple license" -- what I have been calling the "traditional GNU > documentation license", reads as follows: > > Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this > manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are > preserved on all copies. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of > this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that > the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a > permission notice identical to this one. > > Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this > manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified > versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a > translation approved by the <copyright holder, or an organzation to whom > the copyright holder is willing to delegate this function>.
If the point is obvious, my apologies, but: If sufficiently motivated people are annoyed by the ongoing conversion of GNU documentation to GFDL, they may at any time fork the final non-GFDL version and maintain derivative works (updated manuals) to benefit Debian and others. -- Cheers, "Entia non sunt multiplicanta praeter necessitatem." Rick Moen -- William of Ockham (attr.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
