[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm still disappointed that the FDL has been used for that. We need > > to promote these skills more widely and easily than that allows. > > What are the problems with the FDL for that?
Some of them are general to strong copyleft, similar to why you'd use the LGPL rather than the GPL for a library. There are other skills out there which we need to win mindset from and more liberal terms help to do that more cheaply. Some of them are FDL-specific, like allowing any group to attach permanent obnoxious advertising or poison pills, or including the FDL 1.2 licence inline. See http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/fdl#general The SFDL would probably remove some of those drawbacks, but not all. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html tel:+44-844-4437-237 - Webmaster-developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, consumer and workers co-operative member http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ - Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
