discuss: Docbook Statistics
Subject:
Re: Docbook Statistics
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
6 Sep 2001 01:40:43 -0000
Message-Id: <20010905213942.B32140@lupercalia.net>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:30:02PM -0700, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
> >Our free license percentage is sitting at only 26%, however, a
> >miserable figure. That number includes GFDL, GPL and OPL.
>
> That is unlikely to change I would think. As much as I believe that most
> people like the idea of free software, most that I speak with do not like
> the idea of free documentation. At least not in the GNU sens of the word.
>
> To be honest, )and this is coming from probably the most capitalist person
> in the LDP) I can see the point with large documents of restricting use.
> However, for smaller docs (15-20 pages) I don't quite get it.
>
> I don't know maybe it is just me.
My experience has been that about 9 out of 10 authors don't give a
shit. If I ask them to consider GFDL or OPL, they almost always say
sure. I've asked on probably about 20 documents or so.
When they *do* want something else, it has usually been public domain,
with one or two exceptions who opted for BSD. I've had nobody yet just
say a flat out no. Of course I haven't specifically gone after large
documents, usually old documents because they are unmaintained and I
want to assign a new maintainer.
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