Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On 2004-06-04 11:43:45 +0100 Matthieu Delahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> [...] I just want to know if there is a list of >>>> common license for documentation that are definitively known to be >>>> DFSG >>>> free. >>> >>> I'm not sure about definitive, but generally most DFSG-free licences >>> would work for any software and there are benefits from having your >>> manuals under the same licence as your program. >>> >>> Related, is the following licence DFSG-free: >>> >>> "I grant permission to you to do any act with my work. Please ask me >>> to link to mirrors. Please link to this site and credit the >>> contributors. No warranty offered and no liability accepted." >> >> Wordings like "please" don't seem to carry much legal value, so I >> suppose it might even be GPL compatible, though I guess some would >> frown upon the request for credit. > > Nobody here would do so, just so you know. :-)
Isn't that what the fuss about the "obnoxious advertising clause" of the old BSD (and new XF86) licence is all about? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]