discuss: license issues
Subject:
Re: license issues
From:
Mary Gardiner ####@####.####
Date:
28 Apr 2004 00:54:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20040428005435.GA8378@titus.home.puzzling.org>
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I wonder if there is any free software documentation license
> acceptable to them
A *quick* search of the debian-legal archives at
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/ suggests that none of the licences
commonly suggested here (Creative Commons, GFDL) are Debian free. They
suggest that the GPL and BSD licences are suitable but of course, both
are actually designed as software licences.
Probably the FreeBSD documentation licence, which looks something like
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD_Documentation_License (keep in mind
the wikipedia is editable) would be free since it's so similar to the
BSD software licence.
There's a debian-legal FAQ at
http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html which details thought
experiments you can use for an informal proof that a licence is Debian
Free: the desert island test, the dissident test and the tentacles of
evil test (which apparently the CC licences fail).
-Mary
PS I'm not involved in any way in the debian-legal list or the Debian
project as a whole. My opinion is therefore simply opinion.
