discuss: GFDL license
Subject:
Re: GFDL license
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
23 May 2002 20:31:53 -0000
Message-Id: <20020523133135.B342@lafn.org>
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:13:43PM -0500, David Merrill wrote:
> For detailed analysis of licenses and so on, you would have to go to
> other sources. The LDP will not specify which license you use, except
> that it must make the document free to use, distribute, and modify for
> commercial and noncommercial purposes, but allow charging for it.
> Otherwise, it cannot be included in Linux distributions which is one
> of our major methods of distribution.
LDP requires that the document be free to copy and distribute. But we
still allow restrictions on modification, but don't encourage it. Linux
distributions will often include all LDP HOWTOs but Debian is going to
put ones that can't be modified in their "non-free" section. I think
the volunteers now active at LDP all strongly encourage a license which
allows modification.
David Lawyer
