Helge Hafting wrote:
If you wonder what licence to use - read both and see what suits you best. They are only a few pages.
Yes only a few pages but with complicated lawyer sentences. Angus points me to this link
http://jan.netcomp.monash.edu.au/opendoc/paper.html
where all license types are explained.
> I have the impression that the GFDL was created in order to have a > licence suitable for printing books.
"The GNU Free Documentation License preserves the spirit of the GNU GPL, adapting the details to open documentation."
When the document is published in an "opaque" form (like a book), a "transparent" form (like the LaTeX source code) has to be made available. This causes the mentioned problem:
> Real-world publishers doesn't > want to spend money printing a book that people can legally photocopy.
But this is a problem with all open source licenses. And LyX's docs in form of a book without the corresponding LyX sourcefiles would be useless.
So it shouldn't be problematic to put the documentation under the GFDL if we want that.
regards Uwe
