On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:38:37PM +0000, M. Drew Streib wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 01:46:56PM +0100, Bernd Warken wrote: > > A new kind of document license based on the GNU Free Documentation > > License is needed. Who is interested? > > I think that a better idea might be to better define what is and isn't > allowed in the "invariant sections" defined by the FDL. I'm also not > a fan of the potential abuse of these sections, but still think that the FDL > is a fine license assuming some policy is set forth regarding the > use/abuse of these invariant sections. > Fine. So ye people of FSF, how about an update to GNU FDL 1.2 that restricts the invariant sections on meta-sections?
> On the other hand, if you genuinely feel that the license is too restrictive > for the end user (especially with many of the requirements in the > "modifications" section), then perhaps the other extreme (simply > licensing under a BSD-style license) is ok? > The main reason for having a free license is to protect the source file or document agianst theft. If I see that FreeBSD sold themselves to the commercial vamp that fucqed-up BSD in the 1980s then I doubt that the BSD license is a good protection. (Please don't start a discussion on this; don't waste your time with endless blablah; write something useful, e.g. some documentation that is needed). Bernd Warken
