discuss: Confusion about GNU FDL
Subject:
Re: Confusion about GNU FDL
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
15 May 2002 23:16:11 -0000
Message-Id: <20020515104144.D368@lafn.org>
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:37:26PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I wrote the second edition of the Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO. It seems
> to have been reasonably well received.
>
> It's licensed under the LDP License, which apparently is non-free. I'd
> like to fix that.
It's not non-free unless it uses the option that requires the author's
approval for modification. It does have a loophole which allows
modification if the new license is no more restrictive than the
original. Suppose I just say that the new license is public domain.
Isn't that less restrictive ?? Then someone takes the public domain
doc, modifies it, and copyrights it under some extremely restrictive
license.
David Lawyer
