Re: [Trisquel-users] Thoughts on the GFDL

[matt . ivie]

One thing to remember about this is that even though you can always copy and  
paste, that doesn't always maintain formatting and it can make things  
difficult when moving the text to a different medium. I also think it's more  
of a courtesy for the next person down the line that plans to add to the  
manual. Editing a document where you have access to the original will be less  
of a headache than having to deal with a "copy and paste" scenario each time  
a new author needs to work on the manual. The fact that it is a technical  
manual for a program that is going to be under a free license and the real  
work is actually writing the manual(not to mention the software), I think the  
small amount of work involved in complying with this license is rather minor  
"problem". The pay off is well worth it.