Re: gnome summary

[Bart Schuller <schuller+gnome lunatech com>]

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:47:42PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Also, the GPL is inappropriate for documentation; there are far too many
> docs under the GPL, which makes no sense. The FSF does not even GPL its
> docs, though the docs are under a free license. The GPL mentions
> _software_ explicitly, you can't expect courts to apply it to docs via
> some weird metaphorical extension. You want a free license for docs but
> the GPL is not it.

Not to mention Tom Christianson's favourite pet peeve: you definitely
don't want example programs that people are expected to try out and use
as a basis for their own to fall under the GPL.

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