>International copyright law recognises that a statement placed alongside
>the material stating something like 'This material may be used for any
>purposes and in any way you wish' will grant the receiver of the material
>any rights they want. And it's a bit shorter than the GNU license! You
>may wish to add 'including but not limited to redistribution in any medium
>or media, with or without charge', if you really want to clarify.
The only difference between this and the GNU license, besides its' brevity,
is that the GNU license guarantees that derivative works must also be free.
If you allow someone to use to material however they like, they can add to
our documentation, sell it, and we'll never get the changes they made
(well, we can buy the book, but their changes won't necessarily be in the
public domain). I would prefer that everyone play by the rules, and as
such, that probably requires the FDL/LGPL.
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Nick Bastin
Software Developer
OPNET Technologies
