On Jan 9, 2006, at 7:19 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:
Chris Kuklewicz wrote:
============== Conclusion It is not possible to borrow text from a GFDL'd manual and incorporate it in any free software program whatsoever. This is not a mere license incompatibility. It's not just that the GFDL is incompatible with this or that free software license: it's that it is fundamentally incompatible with any free software license whatsoever. So if you write a new program, and you have no commitments at all about what license you want to use, saving only that it be a free license, you cannot include GFDL'd text. The GNU FDL, as it stands today, does not meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines. There are significant problems with the license, as detailed above; and, as such, we cannot accept works licensed unde the GNU FDL into our distribution. ============== Thus defaulting the FDL for all wiki content, including code, is a very bad idea.
I agree - can we please use BSD or public domain?
I concur. If you work at a largish company, the IP contamination worries can be really irritating. Putting it all in the public domain ensures that people like me can read and contribute without trouble. -Jan-Willem Maessen
Cheers, Simon
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