Re: ODE - requirement for Editors


Gregory Leblanc (gleblanc@cu-portland.edu)
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:56:34 -0800


Wade Hampton wrote:
> Maybe a DGPL -- GPL for documents, like the LGPL, plus some other
> alternatives.
> DGPL might allow translations provided original is provided, plus allow
> changes
> provided original is provided?

Crud, should have read this one before I replied. There are a couple of
Doc license right now. The DGPL is in draft format, (see the archives
for the LDP-discuss list for more info), and there is also the Open
Content License (or something very similar to that name).

>
> Maybe in the author's kit, include 3-4 licenses (GPL, DGPL, BSD, none,
> ...),
> make recommendations, but in the end, it has to be up to the author of
> the
> document.

The GPL is not really suited for documentation, it has specific tenants
that apply only to source code. That's part of the reason that RMS is
writing a DGPL.
        Greg



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