Re: Future licence suggestions (was : License problem in Ubuntu Desktop Guide)

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Yavor Doganov <yavor doganov org> wrote:

> I urge you to inform licensing gnu org about your
> concerns regarding
> GNU FDL.  Some of them are real, because the license
> was written
> mainly with Texinfo in mind, and some of them are
> moot based on the
> FUD that various people spread on this matter. 

The list of problems encountered with the GFDL has
been on the Mallard wiki page for months:
http://live.gnome.org/ProjectMallard and in our mail
archives for even longer.


> Inventing yet another
> license just because some insignificiant part of the
> Free Software
> community hates GFDL doesn't seem like the right
> approach for me.  RMS
> has mentioned several times that the GFDL will be
> revisited once the
> new GPL/LGPL is out.  

An ETA on that?
 
> Also, remember that GNOME is part of the GNU Project
> and ought to
> follow the main rules and recommendations.  If they
> are unsuitable for
> the purpose in question, this has to be addressed
> properly and fixed,

Yes. As I said, it's rather ironic. It does seem
entirely logical that GNOME, a GNU project, should use
the GFDL, a GNU licence.
Perhaps the GNU project could take heed of the
apparent problems with the GFDL, and either cut
through the FUD with authority or address the
problems, as appropriate.





		
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