On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 10:51:01 -0700 Josh Triplett wrote: > Another possibility is to simply use the GPL, and grant exceptions for > various cases. Given that an ideal Free documentation license would > be GPL-compatible (if not the GPL itself, which is pretty ideal), and > that any GPL-compatible license must not have any restrictions that > are not in the GPL (so it must consist of some subset of the GPL's > conditions), then that GPL-compatible documentation license could > instead be written as a set of exceptions to the GPL. > > For example, if one wanted to permit distributors of physical copies > to refuse to provide source, then that could be written as an > exception.(I personally think it is a good idea to require > distributors, both physical and electronic, to provide source. > However, many people wish to waive this condition for convenience, and > that's fine; the resulting license would still be free, just less of a > copyleft.)
Agreed fully.
The GPL *is* suitable for documentation.
And providing source is indeed important in order to permit the
recipient to fully exercise the freedoms we value...
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