Hi, Afaics dual-licensing is a way to avoid the kind of problems you mentioned (for your specific examples I think there are others). Note that it's not about accepting the GFDL as a license, since we already do so.
Thanks for your feedback, -- Sylvain On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:15:28AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > It is not clear what licenses we accept for documentation. In > > the same spirit - be able to easily share and build manuals > > under the GNU license - we plan to ask new projects to release > > documentation under a license compatible with the GNU Free > > Documentation License. > > Many free software authors consider the adware potential of the > GNU FDL to be an unacceptable price to pay "to enlist commercial > publishers in funding free documentation"[1] and consider the > freedom to remove or reduce inappropriate or unethical advertising > a vital liberty. To give two topical examples: > - the unethical environmental harm of wasting paper printing > a large invariant section when deriving a quick reference card > from a manual; > - the potential for imprisonment, hate crimes and other problems > if an author has solicited an illegal act or advertised a widely- > hated political or terror group in their invariant sections. > > For these sorts of reasons and others, dual-licensing is not > a welcome suggestion. That would still allow others to attach > things permanently and force *all* downstream distributors of > manual derivatives to damage the world more. It may be possible > to use moral rights to object to such derogatory treatment > of our work, but it looks like it could be argued (from [2]) > that we don't have that right for some works that use the FDL. > > Practically, the FDL is also incompatible with the GPL. Please > continue to allow projects under only GPL-compatible licences > and require that projects place manuals under a GPL-compatible > licence as well as any other licence used. > > References: > > [1] - Why publishers should use the GNU FDL > by Richard Stallman > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-gfdl.html > > [2] - Section 81: Exceptions to right. > Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 > http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/cdpa1.htm#s81
