On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Julian Hall wrote:
> At 07:52 AM 3/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >Also, since the GNU FDL was released recently, I'm
> >thinking we should use this for our docs. I have
> >not reviewed it yet though; comments? Other
> >open source types of license preferences?
>
> Make em public domain. If someone wants to publish them for profit (in say
> a printed, nicely bound format), then I wouldn't object. It'll promote the
> use of the product, which has to be the main aim, surely!
>
I think you are mistaken about what the FDL allows. Publishing for profit
is certainly allowed, just as selling GPL software for profit is allowed.
Only non-free derivative works are restricted, and if you make and
distribute more than X number of hard copies you must provide "transparent
machine readable" copies online for some specified amount of time.
see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
-emile
> Jules
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