Re: GNU FDL License on Mutopia

[Jan Nieuwenhuizen]

Bernd Warken <address@hidden> writes:

> I was astonished to get only negative answers to using the GNU 
> Free Documentation License.  I think it's quite good for getting
> a common license scheme on all kinds of documents.  It is quite
> hard to create a fool-proof license from nothing.  The FDL has a
> long history of good-looking predecessors that turned out to be
> buggy, and thus dangerous.

The fear was, as I'm sure you understand, that the FDL would fit
mutopia content just about as bad as the GPL.  For people that are not
familar with the GPL, the MutopiaBSD is easier to digest.  Maybe we
should ask if the FSF, in casu rms, could advise on this.

Jan.

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