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Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !
From: |
Rui Miguel Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please ! |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:54:51 +0100 |
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:02 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management.
> > I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License.
>
> The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. I suggest the
> GPL (yes, you _can_ use it for documents). Failing that I suggest one of
> the free Creative Commons licenses such as the attribution-only license.
This is a ridiculous statement.
IF you use INVARIANTS, then it fails the Debian Free Software
Guidelines.
However, the DFSG is flawed when used against documents.
Because of a flawed reasoning, the RFCs have been moved into non-free.
Its infantile to treat GFDL as if it was a software license.
Rui
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