On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 02:07:46PM -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html. FWIW, I pointed this out > during the comment period; the FSF basically called me a troll and > said that I didn't understand what I was talking about for pointing it > out, so I doubt they're going to move on it.]
Lots of people have made the comparison to the 4-clause BSD license for various parts of the GFDL--it was own my initial (and oft-recurring) thought about Invariant Sections. As far as I know, the FSF has never offered any defense to this and I doubt they have any. > A. First of all, only the preamble of the GPL is so marked; the FSF has I believe the whole license was so marked, but was relaxed by a license clarification of the FSF. "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." -- Glenn Maynard
