Free documentation licenses

[David Johnson]

On Monday 27 November 2000 11:30 am, kmself at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> David's license is largely similar to a BSD/MIT license, and looks on
> first glance to be relatively reasonable.  I gather that the strong
> persistance features of the GPL are not of interest to him.

For API documentation, reference manuals, academic texts and the like, 
copyleft would be very useful. But for my own informal instructional text to 
the new user, I don't see any benefit. By it's nature, a text is naturally 
open in a way that a software application is not.

> The one benefit to conformant licensing I can see is that the downstream
> distributer/modifier doesn't have to deal with multiple sets of
> licensing terms in deciding how the work or derived works can be
> (re)distributed.

And for this reason I am heavily leaning towards the GFDL anyway, in order to 
be more conformant with the developer's GPL application.

-- 
David Johnson
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