On 19/08/05, Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Granted. > But when the question is "is the GFDL a license suitable to release free > documentation?" their answer is very different from our... :-(
That's the main reason I came to debian-legal first. If someone could point me in the direction of a more appropriate forum I would be most grateful. > We have so *few* DFSG-free non-programs, that I don't consider this as a > minor issue... > I'm worried about this possible scenario: > > * a user comes to us seeking for license analysis or recommendation > * we tell her "if you are not talking about a Debian (prospective) > package, go away" > * she finds another 'forum' and follows their analyses and > recommendations > * sooner or later she becomes an author and writes something useful > * she chooses the license based on what she was recommended > * many other people contribute to her work > * an RFP or ITP is filed against that work in the Debian BTS > * it's time for debian-legal to check the license > * ouch! the work does not comply with the DFSG: must be rejected from > main > * it's too late to persuade people to relicense: another work is lost > > Maybe we could have talked to her earlier in this process... :-( I was hoping to review the Open Game License[1]. Although not a software license, it has been used in the popular PCGen software application which could, hypothetically, be added to Debian at some point. -- Ricardo Gladwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/ogl.html
