Howdy all, The 'debian-legal' forum is not an ideal place to discuss licenses in the absence of a work to which the license is applied. Nevertheless, one license that has caused considerable fuss is the GNU "Free Documentation License", or FDL.
The FSF has a draft license named the "Simpler Free Documentation License" <URL:http://gplv3.fsf.org/doclic-dd1-guide.html>; that page says that the SFDL was published in draft form on 2006-09-26. The FSF invite comment on the draft SFDL. Rather than showing the text of a draft license here, I'll direct readers to the "discussion draft" of the SFDL <URL:http://gplv3.fsf.org/sfdl-draft-2006-09-26.html>. Interacting with the document required creating an account (username and password) at the site, and using a Javascript-enabled browser. So far, I can not see *any* comments at that document's URL. The released version of the FDL has attracted a litany of well-reasoned criticisms, many of them relating to freedom-related problems with the license terms; has anyone used the above "discussion draft" interface for the draft SFDL to comment on whether those criticisms also apply to this license? -- \ “The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the | `\ human mind to correlate all its contents.” —Howard Philips | _o__) Lovecraft | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
