--- Julian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Theres nothing that stops you from writing your own
> license that states
> something along the lines of 'you can distribute
> these documents however
> you like. we don't care. don't bother us about
> them.'...
>
> IMHO, neither GPL nor LGPL are that great.
>
Yes, there is....... its called international
copyright law. By default the recipient of any
copyrighted material has no rights to do anything with
the material except:
read it,
write about it,
reference it,
or internalize the data contained within.
The idea of the GPL, the LGPL, or the FDL is to
allow the recipient certain non-default rights without
having to obtain specific written permission for each
time that they wish to exercise such rights. It is a
time and effort saver for the copyright holder.
Because of this we can have freeware and not have to
worry about it becoming public domain due to the lack
of care to enforce the copyright. So, since the FDL
does not say anywhere in itself that the reader of a
doc file may write a new license for it, he may
not--for any FDL'd doc file. I hope that this clears
that misconception up a little bit.......
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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