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Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !: msg#00140

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Subject: Re: GDL Guidebook : Help please !

On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 19:02 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > I have a personal project to write a guidebook for Project Management.
> > I'd like to publish it under the GNU Free Documentation License.
>
> The GFDL in its present form is non-free and somewhat buggy. I suggest the
> GPL (yes, you _can_ use it for documents). Failing that I suggest one of
> the free Creative Commons licenses such as the attribution-only license.

This is a ridiculous statement.

IF you use INVARIANTS, then it fails the Debian Free Software
Guidelines.

However, the DFSG is flawed when used against documents.
Because of a flawed reasoning, the RFCs have been moved into non-free.

Its infantile to treat GFDL as if it was a software license.

Rui

--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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