Re: [Bug-gnupedia] GPL / FDL

[Jimmy Wales]

One way to solve this -- suggested to me by RMS, and it is a very
sensible idea -- is to require that articles accepted into Nupedia,
articles which have any substantive amount of code in them -- release
the code under GPL, and the article (including the code) under the FDL.

I think that's very sensible.  Otherwise you could have code in an
ostensibly free document, which is itself _not_ free (in the sense
that is important for code, i.e. compiling and running it).

Bryce Harrington wrote:

> Btw, keep in mind that the GPL and the FDL are two similar but
> incompatible licenses.  I.e., work provided under the GPL cannot be
> auto-changed to FDL.  What this means for sample-programs-in-a-book, or
> documention-in-a-software-distro, I'm not sure, but I suspect if someone
> wished to do things like this, it could become "legally intricate", so
> to speak.
> 
> However it is possible to completely sidestep the issue by "dual
> licensing" everything under both the FDL and the GPL.  This is a
> suggestion RMS himself suggested to me for something else.  We may also
> want to consider doing this here.
> 
> Bryce
> 
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